I keep putting off writing things in this blog just because I haven't written about prior things. So I have yet another catch up post in word that I never quite finish... first worked on in May then June then July.
Well... I may post that in the future. If I do, I'll back date it to the end of July and mention that.
But right now.... I'm not going to wait.
I live in the suburbs and have a street light on the south side of my home. So I have a narrow window from my backyard for viewing... and plenty of light pollution. But I feel safer with my locked gates then I would going to a park.
I got up at 3:30 am. Watched from about that time to 5:15 when it started to get light out with the breaking dawn. Most of the time there was at least a thin layer of cloudes that I watched move accross my range of vision... which was mostly stright up. There was clouds on the horizon to the north-northwest - which is normal. But there were also thick clouds to the south --- normally I can see stars over the roof of my house in that direction. Not this time. So my view was made narrower. I belive I only saw the bright "fireballs".
In the time I viewed-- (looking mostly at what I believe to be cassiopeia -- the "W" - I'll have to check) I saw a total of 15 meters and one satellite as a bonus. (At least - I think that is what it was.... someone pointed one out to me at the horizon before and I thought you could only see them at the horizon. But it definitely was not a plane - no blinking. Just a very small star sized pinprick steadily moving across the sky. Roughly North to South.)
I heard on the news while I was out there listening to the radio (I like to listen to the Christian teaching broadcasts) that the peak is supposed not only be Sunday to Monday but Monday to Tuesday as well. They had that on the 4am news --- but not the 5am. So I may or may not go out again tomorrow.
Now if I don't fall asleep in the middle of the day at work that would be great.....
tty.
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