It’s a nice night for sitting out to watch the Perseids. 16.6C and no wind.
There’s just one problem.
Despite the cloud I’ve seen two trails so far in gaps in the clouds.
Yes, not bad. 15.6°C with 8/10 altocumulus, at a guess. . . But I saw one!
No aurora, despite KP = 8 at 12:00 UTC and 6 at 18:00 UTC.
The cloud cleared by about 00:30. I stayed up until 02:00 and saw 10 meteorites. Only three were “shooting stars” though and none as good as the three I saw on Saturday night. Sunday night was probably the peak but it was very cloudy so I didn’t bother trying to stay up.
I did use the time to do a little astronomy imaging though…
That’s M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula. It’s 1360 light years away. This was only a very quick snapshot with about 5 minutes of stacking.
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