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Supposed to be the best display tonight, so if the skies are clear where you are, maybe head outside before tucking yourself up in bed O0
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The weather has been too unsettled in the past few weeks, and there has been considerable cloud cover.
Even at the height of the annual Meteor storms, one only sees around 10-15 meteors an hour, and it's areal nuisance trying to strain your neck into the heavens waiting for the next spec of sand to shoot across the sky.
I used to sit in a deckchair, but even when these annual storms are predicted to be impressive, they never are.
Their still lovely to watch when the weather will allow.
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Best way is to get in your sleeping bag and stick your head out of your tent door :)
Follow the really useful advice of a man in NASA, who instructed to "look up".
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http://viz.co.uk/the-disappointids-meteor-shower/
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Got up at 1am. Too cloudy, saw nothing :-[
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http://viz.co.uk/the-disappointids-meteor-shower/
Not as funny as it used to be ;)
Cloudy here so may not see much sadly....
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blue skies here...which means no doubt it'll cloud up later, lol
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I'm getting the feeling that we're all feeling a little 'glass half empty' on here this afternoon :-\
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Hmmmmffff. Glorious sun all day and clouding over now >:(
I'll still poke mi 'ead owt the back door later on mindst O0
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I'll keep my eyes peeled for Uranus (snigger snigger) :D
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That's useful now I know and its the following day............. :D
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It was cloudy here as it usually is whenever there's some sort of astronomical event going on, so we went to see the new Star Trek movie instead. It was great: we saw an alien planet, an unstable nebula and a space station - all without getting a crick in our necks too... ;)
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Visible again on Sunday night (14th) according to the tv weatherman just now.
It was clear when my wife and I looked on Friday night but because of the light pollution here north-west of London we could hardly see the brightest stars, let alone any meteors.
I do hope someone living in a less bright part of the country will get their chance tonight.
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Not as funny as it used to be ;)
Maybe it is ..... it might just be us who don't have the sense of humour we used to have !
http://viz.co.uk/the-disappointids-meteor-shower/ (http://viz.co.uk/the-disappointids-meteor-shower/)
Fnuk, fnuk (I just can't remember who used to laugh like that. That's getting old for you :-[ )
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Twas Finbarr Saunders n his double entendres
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Twas Finbarr Saunders n his double entendres
O0 O0
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Off topic but didn't he go "fnarr fnarr?"
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Off topic but didn't he go "fnarr fnarr?"
Not sure but I remember the story of their lodger scratching his helmet on thistles (while riding a motor bike) :o
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The end splits n it goes all salty.................. ;D