Frozen nose

A good sized patch of sky around Orion has cleared up, and in half an hour I saw about a dozen fairly bright meteors. But a chilly wind has come up, and I had to come in for a while just to let my nose thaw out, and do something about the crick in my neck. It will be sore tomorrow.

Frozen Toes

Wow. Still pretty active out there, but cold and windy. I'm typing with numb fingers. A bit before 0200 local time, the sky cleared quite nicely, and for the next hour, as Leo slowly rose above the stand of large trees behind my house, I saw over a hundred bright meteors. Because of the trees here, I can only see about a third of the sky, so I probably missed quite a few. They tended to show up in swarms, several bright streaks appearing a few seconds apart, then a few minutes with only one or two more, then another group clustered together. I finally got tired of craning my neck, and spread some newspaper on the wet lawn, with a blanket over that, but I still got pretty damp. Very uncomfortable, but well worth it. My cats probably think I've gone crazy. They stayed in the warm house, and gave me strange looks when I came back in. I don't think that kitties are interested in celestial phenomena.