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Finding Serenity
Oct. 28th, 2005 08:34 pmby looking and revelling once more in the film of the decade, then the stars last night when we arrived home.
The light polution here is not too bad and the clear sky meant you could see Milky way and the Pleiades (Seven Sisters). No big pile o'crackers though. There is something very calming about lying out on a clear night and watching the sky (under duvet on a sunlounger this is Britain afterall), if you get out there before midnight you will see military and commercial satellites pass overhead. There is a good site 'Heavens Above' that gives times and trajectories.
I suppose the special stargazy moment for my hubs & I was November 1999 during the Leonides meteor shower (caused by Temple-Tuttle comet) - we had heard about it and went out around 1pm to the nearby field (no lights at all). There were in excess of 1000 meteors per hour, we were there over 2hours- some so bright that they lit the road and cast shadows a few seconds after they passed.
It is coming up to Leonide time again - the forecast is pretty poor this year with a full moon but it is still worth getting out if the skies are clear round you, or suffer from insomnia - from around 14-21 November. Find the constellation of Leo and watch the sky around that area.
But if you are feeling a little crazy and you see one strike the earth then watch out! Oh and the music I have been playing over and over - Eye to the telescope KT Tunstall (Lol)
The light polution here is not too bad and the clear sky meant you could see Milky way and the Pleiades (Seven Sisters). No big pile o'crackers though. There is something very calming about lying out on a clear night and watching the sky (under duvet on a sunlounger this is Britain afterall), if you get out there before midnight you will see military and commercial satellites pass overhead. There is a good site 'Heavens Above' that gives times and trajectories.
I suppose the special stargazy moment for my hubs & I was November 1999 during the Leonides meteor shower (caused by Temple-Tuttle comet) - we had heard about it and went out around 1pm to the nearby field (no lights at all). There were in excess of 1000 meteors per hour, we were there over 2hours- some so bright that they lit the road and cast shadows a few seconds after they passed.
It is coming up to Leonide time again - the forecast is pretty poor this year with a full moon but it is still worth getting out if the skies are clear round you, or suffer from insomnia - from around 14-21 November. Find the constellation of Leo and watch the sky around that area.
But if you are feeling a little crazy and you see one strike the earth then watch out! Oh and the music I have been playing over and over - Eye to the telescope KT Tunstall (Lol)
