Look for a cone-shaped glow that points nearly straight up from the eastern horizon shortly before morning twilight begins (around 5 a.m. local daylight time at mid-northern latitudes). The moon remains out of the morning sky until September 23, when the waxing gibbous [phase] returns and overwhelms the much fainter Zodiacal light.
There's a more extensive writeup, with another photograph and a GIF animation from AccuWeather(.com) meteorologist and staff writer Brian Lada; March 16, 2018. https://www.accuweather.com...his-weekend/70004417
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This is a forum member that has posted hundreds and hundreds of messages like this, for which there is no purpose, other than an effort on his part to induce me to depart. To harness the force of insult, like a battering ram, for the purpose of trying to make this forum so malodorous and disgusting, that I would give up on continuing as an active participant.
Does he think that he has ever moved the chains (so to speak) any closer towards the completion of this unworthy and Posting Rules-contemptuous project, than when he first got started in this vein? Really?
There's the adage that is commonly attributed to Albert Einstein, that insanity is doing the same thing again while expecting a different outcome.
Think back to May 17, 2017. That was when Robert Mueller was named as the DOJ Special Counsel, to continue the investigation that started under the former FBI director, James Comey. The investigation that the President regularly refers to as the "Russia Witch Hunt."
At first, it was a "shiny new object" for me. For months on end, I put up a lot of messages here about it. That's how I remember it. But as 2017 gave way to 2018, have I not "downsized" in this regard? Have I not slowed down my "production line" of Trump-antagonistic messages? I think I have. By a considerable measure. I still take some "shots" at the President, but it's not like the "Fire and Fury" that I unleashed here in the immediate aftermath of Robert Mueller's appointment as the Special Counsel.
Why does he not consolidate his gains? Why does he not accept this small comfort that the Cosmos has provided for him? Trump is good. Trump is not good. Sea levels are holding steady. Sea levels are rising. Too many Muslims are out of control because they follow the tenets of Islam. Too many Muslims are out of control because they do not understand the tenets of Islam. Yada, yada, yada. All the same. All of these dialectics, perfectly interchangeable in the context of this message.
This is Cliff Pennock's online real estate. Cliff Pennock's gift to all of us. Screen name "randye" should take it upon himself to start adhering to the basic, "no-brainer" level of civility that is appropriate for sharing this Internet space, because screen name "randye" cannot own this space. It does not (rightly) belong to him.
Why would screen name "randye" find it so necessary to play the skunk (so to speak) and make this "stink" about a topic of Backyard Astronomy or Star Gazing? It's a topic that has long been established as something of a tradition on this forum. Anyone could invoke the forum Search function, using the keyword "meteor" with Totally O/T and Subject/Username, and see it for themselves.
Ipso Facto and Stare Decisis.
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Ronald, you have started numerous threads calling for Randye specifically. You are not a victim here. You are the one pizzing on threads not political.
Your hate of so many of us here has always been obvious. Our way of life is upsetting to you.
I just completed some "finishing work" on my previous message here. Rough edges have been sanded. Paint overspray, removed. Polishing clay to achieve a higher gloss.
I am not going to try to see the Zodiacal light because--and this goes back to the "rinselberg" message that is two before this one--I cannot easily check all three of the boxes. I would have a considerable road trip to get to a place that is dark enough for me to have a decent chance to see it. A place that is far enough from the interference of city lights. This isn't a good time for me to contemplate that kind of road trip.
It's here for any forum members that are curious about what can be seen in the night sky, and may live in less densely populated areas, or may find some other purpose in it that would make it worthwhile for them.
Here's a YouTube video presentation of it. I had sorted through the ones that were available and liked this one the best.
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Yes, anyone, including YOU, can use the search function and see that you already had a thread on this very same topic, but in your usual psychotic spam-tastic, desperate for attention, fashion you had to start yet ANOTHER one.
You have pulled this same bullcrap trick with many of your other vapid threads, including referring back and linking to your own months or years prior garbage just like you did on OptiBoard with your "Radio Free Rinsel" douchebaggery.
You are clearly intent on doing to PFF the same thing you did to OptiBoard and clogging the O/T section with All Ronald, All the time.
Ronald you are seriously and deeply mentally ill. Get Help.
#OptiBoard
#TimeforRonaldtogo
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The rule of thumb here (I think this is very likely accurate) is the Milky Way.
If anyone has a location where they could go outside on a clear night (hardly any clouds) and be able to discern the Milky Way, then I think that is likely a location where there would be a decent chance of being able to discern the Zodiacal light.
Just a month ago, I went with a few of the other "Fiero folks" to Martial Cottle Park, which is part of the Santa Clara County Park System. It's on the outskirts of San Jose.
There was an outdoor screening of a movie and after that--from 10pm to midnight--people remain encamped (so to speak) and talking and keeping an eye out for glimpses of the annual Perseid meteor shower. It was one of the August calendar dates that lends itself to being able to observe these "Perseid" meteors.
I did see two particularly bright meteors streak across the sky, but not the Milky Way. Or at least, not very distinctly. Too much ambient light from relatively nearby commercial buildings and suburban roads and highways. I doubt that this would be a good location to try to discern the Zodiacal light.
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I did see two particularly bright meteors streak across the sky, but not the Milky Way. Or at least, not very distinctly. Too much ambient light from relatively nearby commercial buildings and suburban roads and highways. I doubt that this would be a good location to try to discern the Zodiacal light.
About 24 years ago, I spent a few nights at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I saw the Milky Way like I hadn't seen it since I was a small child growing up in the Florida panhandle in the 1950's.
Our way of life is upsetting to you.
