Meteors!

I watched the Perseids meteor shower recently with my friends Laura J. Mixon, her daughters, and Bob Norton (and my dh, of course). Worth the lost sleep. The weather was perfect, the moon was new and the sky dark as it gets. Bob brought his telescope and we looked at all kinds of cool stuff in the sky, then at 4:00 am Laura and I participated in a test project to count meteor observations. Even with both of us in the same location, we didn't have the exact same sightings. It was cool.

There's another shower coming up on the night of August 31/September 1. The Aurigids are a comparatively young shower and will offer a concentrated burst at 4:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time. Sounds like it will be pretty spectacular.

Chris Crawford is running a study again, and wants as many observers as he can get for the Aurigids. All you need to do is install a simple program on your laptop, then while you are observing meteors, click your mouse each time you see one. (Bonus: the laptop makes a nice lap warmer in the cool early morning!) When you're done, email the log file created by the program to Chris. Instructions are available here.

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