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Borg 386 said:

Lyrid meteor shower to peak early on Earth Day

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weath...hower/70004697

Well, phooey! We have very cloudy skies and rain is happening, so I guess watching that is out. Even if I could see it, I'd get very wet.

Supposed to be a good show here, but no way I'm staying up.

Too many lights here

A Guy

Whoops, forgot to switch them off.

Lol, hello Chuck. If only it worked that way. We used to go camping every year late July/August. You'd see shooting stars several a minute during the Perseid meteor shower. And a billion stars. It's funny that they are always there, but we can't see them...kind of sad too

A Guy

A Guy said:

Lol, hello Chuck. If only it worked that way. We used to go camping every year late July/August. You'd see shooting stars several a minute during the Perseid meteor shower. And a billion stars. It's funny that they are always there, but we can't see them...kind of sad too

A Guy

We used to lay outside in the grass at night and watch shooting stars when I was a kid. There weren't all that many, but no special meteor showers were expected either.

Just be glad we don't live in Russia.
They get the big ones

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Thanks John, got a tab open