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Getting ready for Leo and his pals...
According to a table titled Leonid meteor rates for selected cities: Nov. 19, 2003 (a NASA site, scroll down the page), a noteworthy time to observe the Leonid meteor shower in our neck of the woods (Denver), will be 12:45 am, or a little less than 4 hours from now.
The same table is also posted at StarrySkies.com, but there is another page on the same site that implies there will be a peak at between 3:23 and 3:47 am, owing to a "second debris-laden cloud."
At last glance, the skies seem clear and the weather maps give every indication of it staying that way.
On the way home from the store, Drew noted a bright object falling in the sky in front of us. I managed to see only the tail end of its course, which seemed too slow for a meteor and way too fast for an airplane. Perhaps a fireball? Definitely a UFO, in the precise meaning of the term.
At any rate, I've processed 41 of 63 pages today, for a nice payday (even if the pages were lightweight), so some of the pressure is off from that direction. I've got the rest of that document to finish by Friday - which should not be much of a problem - plus a back-translation/edit job due Thursday morning for a new direct client. So it would appear I have my work cut out for me for the next couple of days.
Time to spend a little time cleaning, maybe cook a few days' worth of food for Ming, and get ready for a really cold tour outside tonight. This is the third year I'll be out looking at the Leonids, and the first in which there is snow on the ground, so I'm sure it will be particularly frosty out there.
Cheers...
The same table is also posted at StarrySkies.com, but there is another page on the same site that implies there will be a peak at between 3:23 and 3:47 am, owing to a "second debris-laden cloud."
At last glance, the skies seem clear and the weather maps give every indication of it staying that way.
On the way home from the store, Drew noted a bright object falling in the sky in front of us. I managed to see only the tail end of its course, which seemed too slow for a meteor and way too fast for an airplane. Perhaps a fireball? Definitely a UFO, in the precise meaning of the term.
At any rate, I've processed 41 of 63 pages today, for a nice payday (even if the pages were lightweight), so some of the pressure is off from that direction. I've got the rest of that document to finish by Friday - which should not be much of a problem - plus a back-translation/edit job due Thursday morning for a new direct client. So it would appear I have my work cut out for me for the next couple of days.
Time to spend a little time cleaning, maybe cook a few days' worth of food for Ming, and get ready for a really cold tour outside tonight. This is the third year I'll be out looking at the Leonids, and the first in which there is snow on the ground, so I'm sure it will be particularly frosty out there.
Cheers...