The piece I read said the best time to watch the Orionid meteor shower was in the hour before dawn, which would be now. I stood on the deck for a few minutes and looked up. It's a starry pre-dawn and mild to boot. Should I get a chair and my cup of coffee and see the show? I heard some critter crashing around in the leaves near the house. Too clumsy for a squirrel. No animals I call by a given name live here. Raccoon? Cat? Whichever, I didn't want to be their companion.
Ever since the Internet entered my life it seems like I read about, at a minimum, 10 "don't miss this in your lifetime" astral events a year. That way we all get a shot at something, I guess. I was a poor student of constellations in my young years. Once we even went to the teacher's home at night because her husband had a telescope and we were to be looking at something spectacular. Jupiter, I think. Was Jupiter a big deal in 1960? Whatever it was, I couldn't quite get a handle on it.
These Orionid meteors. Related to that constellation Orion? Yes, look toward Orion. Well, then. I'm lost in space.
Ever since the Internet entered my life it seems like I read about, at a minimum, 10 "don't miss this in your lifetime" astral events a year. That way we all get a shot at something, I guess. I was a poor student of constellations in my young years. Once we even went to the teacher's home at night because her husband had a telescope and we were to be looking at something spectacular. Jupiter, I think. Was Jupiter a big deal in 1960? Whatever it was, I couldn't quite get a handle on it.
These Orionid meteors. Related to that constellation Orion? Yes, look toward Orion. Well, then. I'm lost in space.