Night of the Perseids
Night of the Perseids
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down.
It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down.
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Re: Night of the Perseids
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
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Re: Night of the Perseids
Nice pic, and pretty impressive until you see that the dedicated photographer had to wait 6 hours to see those 12ish meteors. That's one every half hour, which in my book hardly qualifies as a shower. All in all, I'm not sorry I missed it...
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Re: Night of the Perseids
One of my most vivid summer camp memories was being woken in the middle of the night one august night in the seventies, loaded into canoes, and taken out into the middle of a dark Muskoka lake to watch the perseids for an hour or two. As I recall, we saw a reasonable number, which might well have been 12 in considerably less than six hours.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: Night of the Perseids
As I remember 1970 was a good year 
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down.
It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down.
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Re: Night of the Perseids
1999 was a good year! I camped on a field in Cornwall, travelled there to see the total sun eclipse. The eclipse was behind clouds, but still an amazing experience. But the cloudless moonless nights on the field with all those meteors flashing by were awesome.
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Re: Night of the Perseids
A few years ago, we had a pretty impressive Leonid shower. The funny thing is, my hubby gave up and went to bed about midnight, after seeing only a few meteors. All of a sudden, about 1 a.m., they started streaking across the sky like crazy...and I couldn't get either him or Johanna out of bed to see them!
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Re: Night of the Perseids
I think I saw that one (Jan?) and it was the only meteor shower I've ever seen that really qualified as a shower. For a while, I was seeing a meteor every few seconds, in crystal clear winter skies. Well worth freezing my butt off for an hour or so.Redwolf wrote:A few years ago, we had a pretty impressive Leonid shower. The funny thing is, my hubby gave up and went to bed about midnight, after seeing only a few meteors. All of a sudden, about 1 a.m., they started streaking across the sky like crazy...and I couldn't get either him or Johanna out of bed to see them!
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Re: Night of the Perseids
November, I think. It was really impressive. Our deck faces north, and we're far enough from town that, on a clear night, we get pretty good seeing. The skies were indeed clear as crystal that night.brewerpaul wrote:I think I saw that one (Jan?) and it was the only meteor shower I've ever seen that really qualified as a shower. For a while, I was seeing a meteor every few seconds, in crystal clear winter skies. Well worth freezing my butt off for an hour or so.Redwolf wrote:A few years ago, we had a pretty impressive Leonid shower. The funny thing is, my hubby gave up and went to bed about midnight, after seeing only a few meteors. All of a sudden, about 1 a.m., they started streaking across the sky like crazy...and I couldn't get either him or Johanna out of bed to see them!
Redwolf
We've had so much fog this summer it hasn't even been worth trying to stay up for the Perseids. As soon as the sun even things about setting, that nasty gray blanket rolls in from the ocean.
Redwolf
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