Bruce and I took our sleeping bags, mats, tea and cookies...drove out to the country, found a suitable (away from city lights) place...and laid down on the grass...and awaited the show!!. Counted numerous satellites, planes and other unidentifiable stuff??The Perseids was the active part tonight and it was encouraging to see the clear ski at 10 pm... We saw a few zoomers...meteorites streaking across here and ..oh,...over there.. and it was truly relaxing. I was very close to snoozing...as I do in the planetarium...too... :) I think we counted around 20 at the end...and packed everything up just after midnight.
The next day I heard on the CBC that the meteorite show, really picked up towards 5 am... to offer 40-60 an hour!! It is very humbling to gaze into the beyond and see how wee .....we are.
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a very cool thing to do
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