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Perseids - 2017



The Perseids meteor shower is an annual event in August.  Simply find a dark sky, and watch.  On really good peak nights perhaps 50 sightings an hour.  Unfortunately, this year much of the shooting star show was drowned out by the moon's brightness.  You couldn't see any but the very brightest, and I saw 4 or 5 nice ones.  Otherwise, the camera had a better shot at capturing them.  Here, then, are the ones it caught, mostly small and unseeable by eye.    







By chance or by foresight I have managed to be in Northlandia during the Perseids the past few years. Kitschland night shots are impossible.  The first time I came back, sans Cabin in the Woods, I was staying with my friend Pat in Knoxville.  She lives right by a cemetery and I chose that spot to aim my camera.  Around 4:00 am here comes this wispy, ethereal vision out of the mist and it was Pat with a cup of cocoa for me.  I never forget acts of friendship.  Never.  

Although this year was blinded by the light I was still able to make the trip to the Keithsburg dyke worthwhile.  You lucky Northlanders - the perfect skies, the perfect weather, the perfect people.

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