Synchronize watches...
Nov. 18th, 2002 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpIn about 7-1/2 hours, the Leonid meteor shower is scheduled to peak. If I read the techie sites correctly, the Earth will be passing through a distinguishable "second" debris field from the comet Tempel-Tuttle at that time.
The weatherwogs indicate there will be a band of thin clouds wandering through the Denver area at about that time. No word on whether the clouds will interfere with viewing down here in the Four Corners. I've got the wide-angle lens on the 35-mm camera, and there's two rolls of 1600 speed color film upstairs, waiting to be loaded. There's also a cable release somewhere (two, in fact), which I need to track down before hitting the hay.
The moon will, definitely, interfere, so I plan to be on the side of the house away from the nearly full moon (it will be completely full tomorrow... in fact, there will be a penumbral lunar eclipse, which is where the Moon slips into an area between Earth's full shadow and clear sunlight).
(If we consider the lunar cycle to be 28 days long, then it takes 14 days to go from new to full moon. Since tonight the moon is one day short of full, that means the moon will be about 93% full tonight.)
More paper chase today. No calls.
Cheers...
The weatherwogs indicate there will be a band of thin clouds wandering through the Denver area at about that time. No word on whether the clouds will interfere with viewing down here in the Four Corners. I've got the wide-angle lens on the 35-mm camera, and there's two rolls of 1600 speed color film upstairs, waiting to be loaded. There's also a cable release somewhere (two, in fact), which I need to track down before hitting the hay.
The moon will, definitely, interfere, so I plan to be on the side of the house away from the nearly full moon (it will be completely full tomorrow... in fact, there will be a penumbral lunar eclipse, which is where the Moon slips into an area between Earth's full shadow and clear sunlight).
(If we consider the lunar cycle to be 28 days long, then it takes 14 days to go from new to full moon. Since tonight the moon is one day short of full, that means the moon will be about 93% full tonight.)
More paper chase today. No calls.
Cheers...
