The Perseids

Gay and I were able to see some meteors last night, even though it was pretty hazy.  Looking overhead, I could only see about twenty stars in the wedge of sky we can see between the trees.  In a dark sky it would have been at least three times as many. 

But we scored about a dozen meteors between 3 and 4 a.m., quite brilliant, zero magnitude or brighter.  Like all Perseids, they were white or blue-white and very fast.  (Two of them were not Perseids, but we looked at them anyhow.)

I'd gone out at one, and in an hour saw only four meteors, one bright.

We glimpsed a good number of meteors – we think! – right at the edge of visibility.  If the sky itself hadn't been so bright, we might have recorded twice as many.

It was pretty comfortable, out on our new inflatable mattresses.  Hordes of Florida mosquitoes, but camper-strength Off! kept them at bay.

Joe