meteor showers... i don't profess myself as an astronomer, but im pretty fascinated with the mysteries above that i cannot seem to fathom. that's right. i love star gazing and have always enjoyed every single trip i had with adr.
honestly, call me sua-gu, i have never seen a real telescope in my entire life until last saturday. we have promised each other we would catch the meteor showers on aug 12 midnight, but we kinda got carried away with catching Rush Hour 3 that we totally forgot about it. trying not to disappoint me, adr and i still star gazed from his windows facing the east.
what could you possibly see from the windows? the city lights were too bright. and the clouds fogged our view. i remembered the only thing we could see from the telescope was the orangy planet Mars, which seemed to be the brightest that night. and well, i didn't get to see any meteors showers, as by the time adr set up his telescope, it was almost 4am.
as i watched him set up his big viewing mechanism, i thought to myself, perhaps the best starry hosts i could make myself instantly see was to conk out in bed and sleep :) hee. oops. that was eventually what we did! ha. since we kinda missed our august 11/12 star gazing expisode, we are now hoping to catch the next upcoming Aurigids meteor showers next month. absolutely exciting and spectacular, as astronomers explained over space.com that Aurigids are rare meteor showers that would hit planet earth on 1st sep.
im now praying for cloudless night. no rain. and it would be just perfect to go out with the telescope!
above pic: images.com
~gracie left a note at 10:12 am
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gracie
activities: beach-ing, swimming, camping
interests: music, history
birthday: 18 june
home sweet home: singapore
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