Deckchair and Rug Time

The start of this year’s meteor season has begun with the Perseid meteor shower. Last night it was too cloudy to see anything, but hopefully I’ll be able to watch the skies in the next night or so. The peak of this year’s shower will occur on Saturday night. The other fly in the ointment, besides the cloud, is the fact that the moon is also in the night sky, and its light drowns out the fainter meteors.

 

There’s a good article on meteor-watching in today’s Guardian (which is where the title of this post comes from).