Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Leonids

 I woke up at 3am to go to the bathroom. So I figured I should go out to view the Leonid meteor shower.

In an hour and a half, I saw 3 good ones, and several faint ones.

Far short of the predicted one per four minutes.

And none of the "fireballs" that I was hoping for.

The dominant experience was the intense stench of skunk that only lasted a few minutes.  My guess is that it was not a skunk, but instead one of the local foxes patrolling the perimeter.