Jay Manifold has some helpful info on next week’s Leonid meteor shower.

Unfortunately, the moon won’t be new, as it was last year (if I recall correctly). But regardless, last year’s was truly spectacular, and if this year’s is anything close to it, it’s well worth getting out of town, finding a dark sky, and checking it out.

[Update at 12:43 PM PDT]

Webmaster and astronomical camera designer (and not former gubernatorial candidate, though he’d have likely run a stronger campaign…) Bill Simon suggests that because there will be a moon, that it will establish the minimum background light level, and there’s probably little additional benefit to getting way out of town. Just find a relatively dark sky, and don’t watch from underneath a street light.