Erstellt am: 16. 11. 2009 - 11:39 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Feeling lucky punk?
If you can stay awake at least. Tonight is the night for the Leonid meteor showers, and that should meant anyone lucky enough to get a cloudless patch of sky and some darkness should be able to see a bit of a show.
O. Gabzo (Wise Observatory [ http://wise-obs.tau…])
If you are willing to get up between about 3 and 5 in the morning that is.
It won't be quite the storm that people in Asia will get treated to, but if you've never stumbled across a meteor this should at least be a chance to get one or two wishes in.
There are a couple of tools available online to help you find the prime viewing time for your area, but I haven't had a lot of luck getting one to work, and I am waiting for the site to update on another.
In the meantime you can check out a few bits of information about the Leonids:
de.wikipedia.org
science.nasa.gov
And then you can try to find out when they will be visible here leonid.arc.nasa.gov or here www.tabwin.com