On station...
Nov. 19th, 2002 02:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThey say that only mad dogs and Englishmen will go out in the midday sun, and I suppose it takes nutso translators with an occasionally overabundant sense of wonder to emerge under the Leonid stars.
I've been up since a little after 1 am, the result of Sasha making noise along the lines of wanting to go out. I got outside with the camera around 1:15 or so, and immediately saw a couple of meteors in the area around Leo, the constellation after which the shower is named.
It is cold, if nothing else. The moon is still high in the sky, and is almost bright enough to read by. Off to the northwest, I saw a band of white clouds that looked pretty solid when I first got outside. By 1:40 or so, the clouds had moved "up" from the horizon, and I began to think we'd be socked in for the main event, which is supposed to occur around 90 minutes from now. However, looking out a few minutes ago, it would appear that the clouds are not that solid, and that there is a band of clear (or at least clearer) sky behind them, at about that position on the horizon that the clouds themselves occupied about an hour ago.
I'm warming up with a cup of hot tea and am off to check out a NASA site devoted to the Leonids (out of Marshall, if memory serves, but Google will set me straight in any event).
Cheers...
I've been up since a little after 1 am, the result of Sasha making noise along the lines of wanting to go out. I got outside with the camera around 1:15 or so, and immediately saw a couple of meteors in the area around Leo, the constellation after which the shower is named.
It is cold, if nothing else. The moon is still high in the sky, and is almost bright enough to read by. Off to the northwest, I saw a band of white clouds that looked pretty solid when I first got outside. By 1:40 or so, the clouds had moved "up" from the horizon, and I began to think we'd be socked in for the main event, which is supposed to occur around 90 minutes from now. However, looking out a few minutes ago, it would appear that the clouds are not that solid, and that there is a band of clear (or at least clearer) sky behind them, at about that position on the horizon that the clouds themselves occupied about an hour ago.
I'm warming up with a cup of hot tea and am off to check out a NASA site devoted to the Leonids (out of Marshall, if memory serves, but Google will set me straight in any event).
Cheers...
