We had a few cool space discussions lately on the forums. Cool! I've been interested in space and stuff since forever, I'll have to ask my mum if she can remember what got me started on it, but I remember spending whole evenings drawing the planets and things when I was about 4. I got a telescope when I was about 10, it was that cheap 60mm Tasco refractor - the type every science book and astronomer tells you do not buy....
Well spotted loads of Perseids this year, pretty clear, no Moon, too much light pollution (town of 36000 people) but averaging 40 per hour. This is based on observations between 11:30 (BST) 00:50 with two sets of eyes looking east. Spotted a very weird object, dark-orangy colour about -1 mag appeared in Cassiopeia and travelled through Pegasus all the way to the horizon in about 5-8 seconds. The distance it travelled instantly pops into my mind as a satellite, but doing it that fast and at around 00:30 when I very much doubt the Sun is illuminating any objects in that low of an orbit....
As it was very clear tonight I popped outside at 22:15 (UTC) to spot two Iridium flares. Within seconds (before I even turned the lights out) I spotted a bright flash very high up 80°+ to the west, probably a meteor exploding. Always a good sign. While searching for Iridium 49, scheduled to pass at 22:18:23 which I could not spot, a meteor zipped across the sky, about 10 degrees long passing through the Hercules region of the sky ENE to WSW at around 0 magnitude....
The Huygens space probe has landed safely on Titan, one of Saturn's satellites, pictured below in the bottom-left corner. ESA's Huygens space probe had been carried by the Cassini probe for seven years on it's journey to Saturn. The probe was designed to measure the moon's weather and chemistry, it appears to of landed on a solid surface and not plunged into an ocean of hydro-carbons as many people expected. Nobody seems to of mentioned this but it's the furthest from Earth we've ever landed a probe....