Annette & I drove to that well known dogging spot "The Egghill Farm lay-by" last night. We stayed from 11.30pm (2330hrs) till about 12.30am (0030hrs) and saw about 10 meteors each (Not what Sir Patrick Moore had said on The Sky At Night, one every two minutes was the prediction). Annette was chatted up by a helpful bloke, whom I presume thought we were there for non-astronomical reasons! (Pun intended). Shivering with coldness (I was wearing tee shirt, shorts and sandals) I suggested we go home, and suffer the street light pollution from there.
In our back garden (having put warmer clothes on) we lay on our sun loungers for the best part of 2 more hours and observed about 20 more meteors, through the yellow haze. Jonathan eventually went to bed at 2am (0200hrs) and with his bedroom light off, the light pollution decreased vastly. We went to bed after Simon S came out for a cigarette at about 3am (0300hrs)
Today, we both awoke late!!!
The dustmen had already been and as usual, left most of our recycling box contents in a trail from the garden to the middle of the road in almost a collage of meteors!!
In our back garden (having put warmer clothes on) we lay on our sun loungers for the best part of 2 more hours and observed about 20 more meteors, through the yellow haze. Jonathan eventually went to bed at 2am (0200hrs) and with his bedroom light off, the light pollution decreased vastly. We went to bed after Simon S came out for a cigarette at about 3am (0300hrs)
Today, we both awoke late!!!
The dustmen had already been and as usual, left most of our recycling box contents in a trail from the garden to the middle of the road in almost a collage of meteors!!
Previously posted on my Yahoo! 360°~david_t_wilson~blog 13/8/07
