Posted on 08/12/2014 6:21:29 PM PDT by 1nici1
...............Wow! The NLs AND the Perseids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God really digs you, bro!...........
Yeah! It’s seared in my mind!
(Even though it wasn’t Christmas, and I wasn’t in Cambodia, but then I was never awarded three purple hearts!)
Funny!!!!!
Just now, not even thinking about meteors, I happened to look out the open sliding kitchen door ( through the screen ) and see a slow bright one low in the northwestern sky, in the western ‘burbs of Chicago.
Very efficient observing! One second, one meteor!
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But, one August in the 1950's, my folks and I were bedded down in the back of our pickup, 'way out on Galveston Island's West Beach -- far from any lights. While we were waiting for the tide to turn to go flounder gigging, the sky lit up with the most amazing Leonid display I have ever seen!
Each of us looked a different direction, and several times two of us said at the same time, "there's one"! At times, we couldn't call one -- before another appeared in our quadrant of the sky!
When the tide turned, we lit our lanterns and went floundering. But, if I had known then how unusual that meteor display was, I would have stayed in the truck bed, instead...
Nowadays, unfortunately, development has spread so far west on Galveston that it's doubtful if a dark place like a that still exists on the island... :-(
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I'm definitely in better "seeing" here in the Piney Woods (with the security light switched off). But, this looks like it may be a disappointing Perseid show this year...
The Leonids, in 2003, were AMAZING! One every 30 seconds or so. So glad we got up and went outside to look then!
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