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Perseids Meteor Showers


AnonyMouse_73

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Hi Geraldine, you might guess, I'm just a tiny bit obsessed about what is in our skies...

 

The Perseids are meteor showers that occur every year around this time, and are especially easy to see this year (if clear) because we are in a waxing moon phase (new moon was on Tuesday), which means that moonlight doesn't interfere with seeing them. They look like shooting stars in the night sky and can be seen in the northeast, just look for the 'W' (constellation Cassiopeia).

 

You can read a little more if you wish here

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Sadly we have grey skies here every night and lots of rain. When we used to go to France in August we would sit out and watch the Perseids. They look like lit matches falling through the night sky, and if you blink you might miss some. I am with mundia and love to look at the sky and the stars and identify the constellations. I think looking out into the sky is such a humbling experience as we seem so small and insignificant compared with everything that is out there.

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We saw some lovely ones over the north sea - although did feel slightly giggly lying on a sun lounger at midnight wrapped in a blanket and feeling ever so ever so small in a very big sky ! Superb and free !

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Really overcast here last night, hoping for better tonight although is not looking good!

 

My cousin, who lives much further south, made an event of it, in the hot tub (I'm not really green!) to watch. But as it was also her birthday she can be forgiven, I suppose :o

 

I, too never cease to marvel at the skies!

 

Sue

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We were sitting round a campfire in suffolk at the campsite and just looking up at the skies noticed lots of shooting stars never realised that it was a meteor shower. We had very clear skies although did have a neck ache!!

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