I never got to see any Lyrids… when it was clear (which wasn’t for long), I didn’t see any activity. Then it hazed over pretty solidly, so I abandoned my observing plans and crashed out. Ah well, better luck next time.

I never did go to the church to get my red egg; I had gone for a manicure/pedicure and almost fell asleep in the chair. I was so relaxed I fell asleep at home, and upon waking I realized I just didn’t feel like going there as the service ends around 2:00 a.m. So it goes.

BTW, I don’t know what to make of Spaceweather.com and all this parad, now they’re seeing trees on the Sun. I go back to work tomorrow, so I can get my PST finally…and 20 zillion useless emails…

;-)

No meteors, but I was up at 3:00 a.m. and soon after then I saw a most beautiful, and unlikely, flock of seagulls (maybe?) fly over my apartment, so I took off to go look at the stars from a different location (stil in the city-proper). It was somewhat cloudy, but the planets were twinkling away, as were my pals M & A. (the signposts of a hint of decent gazingt amidst the light-smog).

No moon was visible, so I called a friend who works at a motel in Maine, and around 4:30-ish the Moon suddenly emerged in true Cheshire Cat form, though right now it’s more of a lefty-smile. The earthshine was palpable; the horns sharp through my binoculars. It may sound maudlin, but I fell in love with the Moon all over again. Perhaps, this is easy to do when it’s been around one’s whole life.

But get this: I’m camera-jinked. I had my Pentax SLR with me, but my battery was dying rapidly! I always carry an extra battery, but forgot I had used it last July in FL during the STS-114 launch/scrub. Too, I didn’t bring my 320mm zoom lens with me. To top it off, my car was so wet with dew (I was on top of an open roof of a parking garage), that my binoculars slid off and hit the pavement. You know those moments when you stop in frozen horror realizing your $300 pair of binocs, or whatever, just met a tragic death? Well, they were OK ~phew~ but that didn’t feel good.

Anyway, using the manual focus I could snap some pictures of the moon and sunrise, but since I had to cut the film (another mishap), I’m not holding my breath for a decent photo. Just one to show I was there will be OK by me this time. Oddly, last full moon on the 13th, I actually had my zoom lens pointing at the moon and didn’t take the picture, or any for that matter. I tend to remember things in much more detail when I don’t use a camera to take photos. (Seems strange, but my father realized this a few days ago when I described the tile inside the tunnel of a the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which we used maybe twice when returning from Wrightsville Beach, NC in the early 70s. I love that bridge.) I could have taken a picture of everything I did, everywhere I went, and I didn’t. I could say something more about this in regards to a youthful musing about, “How would I prove seeing an alien if that were to happen?” Maybe some things are better left undone or unsaid, especially on C2C, lol.

I did some writing as well as talking my friend’s ears off about a plan for a “Dark Night.” I drew little pictures, too, that I need to redo.

Venus was twinkling away; it will be very pretty tonight (really, at dawn). But the crescent Moon ruled…or at least until its competition started painting baby-blues and pinks above the horizon.

The Sun always rules,

you lonesome orb…

…without it we would never see you.

I think the earth very previously got the heat of the large meteor impacts and many of them cause the early time hazards, means the dinosors ruined, many meteor impact lakes made on earth, many other holes made due to big size meteores,

there is need to establish a early warning meteor falling guideline satelite so that the future’s meteoric hazards can be minimize, but in the last 35 years I have not heard any example of the big meteor falling on earth. and is it true that if a meteor falling on the earth when the atmospheric temperature rose by the sun, so the meteor can create more worsen situation and it takes more fires when it is falling on the earth.

sunil