ruined our viewing of the Perseids meteor shower.
The bastards!!
I dream of taking photos like these
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=perseid&z=e
Unfortunately all I got was a hundred photos of black. Even with some Photoshop trickery all I got was some black images with a few white bits.
However all was not lost. We did see about a dozen shooting stars including two that travelled more than half way across the sky before the clouds came in on Tuesday.
Because the moon was rising early and was quite bright it washed out the sky meaning that the smaller shooting stars were not so visible thats what you get with a waning gibbous moon you know
Tonight we will try again. We shall take the dog to the cricket field and lie on a sleeping bag and drift away looking at all that is far away and feel very small. I look forward to it immensely
There is something wonderful about just sitting and waiting for the universe to entertain me. Without any outside influence from ‘the media’. Watching the amazing show made up of tiny little particles, the remnants of the beginning of the universe travelling behind the Swift-Tuttle Comet hitting our atmosphere at speeds of more than 100,000 miles per hours and burning to nothingness.
A joy it is to watch the sky and see nothing but stars, maybe a plane, a satelite if you look carefully or maybe one of the planets and then WHAM there it is a streak across the sky. A small one normally gets a “One over there” whilst a larger particle which leaves a long streak across the sky that can last for many seconds will get OOOO’s and Ahhhs and there is no doubt that everyone saw it.
So go out and look at the sky for a while. It is a stunning experience.
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