Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Did you see.....


ORIONID METEOR WATCH: The annual Orionid meteor shower, caused by dusty debris from Halley's Comet. Little was expected of this year's display because a bright Moon is hanging in the pre-dawn sky, causing an interfering glare. Surprisingly, however, sky watchers on Oct. 20th witnessed 15 or more Orionids per hour, many of them brighter than first magnitude stars.


It was very cool....although I am never positive it was we acually saw..lol

2 comments:

beth said...

We didn't see it, but out here in podunk, you can surely see the stars!!!

Jill H said...

aww man, I had no idea that was going on!! I'm bummed :(

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