Sacrificing sleep for shooting stars (okay so they were meteors...poetic license damnit!)

[taerowyn]

I did get up early to see the Leonids. What can I say, I'm a nerd. And now, I'm a tired nerd.

One of the many joys of living at home is that my dad checked at 3:00, too much cloud cover, 3:30, too much cloud cover, 4:00, too much cloud cover and then woke me up at 4:30. There were still some clouds, but you could still see them. That way I got to see them and I only had to wake up once. Cause hell, if it'd been me alone and at 3:30 (the peak time) it was too cloudy I would have just rolled over and gone back to bed. But instead I actually got to see it.

Like I said, there was cloud cover, but it wasn't complete so you could see the very bright ones. I probably saw about ten in the fifteen minutes my dad and I were out there. The leonids and persieds and all the other neat astronomical phenomenon will always remind me of my dad. He's just so into that stuff.

My favorite memory was when we were out on our back deck for the perseids, I think. Anyway, a guy who lived two houses down behind us walked out onto his back porch, turned on the porch light and then proceeded to look up to see the meteor shower. We had a hard time repressing our giggles. How confused can you get? We were waiting for him to bust out a flashlight and shine it in the sky "to see better."

Anyway, if any of you were brave enough to face the early hours I hope you enjoyed the show.

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[eeyorekdm.livejournal.com]

we didn't get to see too much here. I think I just needed to go somewhere where it wasn't so bright - we have very few trees to block the veiw, and all our lights were out, but with the full moon and the street lights - it still wasn't the ideal setting. Nala and I went out around midnight (the 1st peak) and didn't see anything and were getting tired and cold. Mom woke me up around 5:30 or so (the BIG peak) and we saw a little bit - still not a ton but... our beach would have been the best spot to watch it... especially up on the dune where we've witnessed other strange and interesting natural occurances.