Just noticed and article regarding Saturday:

http://earthsky.org/space/astronomer...r-october-2011

In short, Saturday evening there will be around 1000 shooting stars an hour near the constellation Draco.

So if the weather is good it will be free and beautiful entertainment for everybody

Enjoy!

Unfortunately it coincides with an almost full moon, so many will go unseen

WTB Lunar eclipse...

Lived in the Jura when I was 13 and got to see the meteor shower of '93. Was amazing.

Also, bad weather announced as of tomorrow...

oh pooh!
just in case which direction?

straight up

"up and slightly left" from Polaris/North Star

Polaris is the right hand star of Ursa Minor in this diagram (which is deliberately upside down to show the perspective when you're looking due north), they'll come mostly out of the triangular head of Draco...

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OK here in Geneva is cold and wet and cloudy so i guess there will be nothing to see

Yup, we've got 9 oktas of cloud cover and steady rain here in Not-So-Sunny Scotia...

...looks like the only Heavenly Body I'll see tonight is the OH



On the positive side, we did see eight or ten of the little chaps last night, so owt better than nowt, I suppose