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Tonight's Full Moon


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Another astronomical treat that could be seen tonight and for the next two nights is the annual Geminid meteor shower, one of the year’s best displays of shooting stars. Up to 100 meteors an hour can fly across the sky. The meteors, which are easy to spot with the naked eye, appear to shoot out from the constellation Gemini, hence their name, but they can be seen all over the sky. However, with a full moon so bright, the best place to look is away from the Moon.

 

Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through clouds of debris shed from comets. As the tiny fragments smash into the Earth’s upper atmosphere at about 100,000mph, they burn up in streaks of light.

 

For reasons that are not understood, the Geminid meteor showers are tending to grow stronger each year.

 

 

THANKS DOUG!!!!!!! :thumbsup_anim:

going out back to watch now

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What the heck is all that white stuff all over the place Jacques??? :dunno: ... did y'all have a volcano go off some place close by, and that's the fallout ash???... looks nasty!!! ;)

 

Just the beginning Glen and I don't like it one bit :devil: but nothing I can do about it and compared to last year.... we're short about 60cm's :w00t:

 

Hopefully mother nature will somehow spare us from the nasty white stuff that's going to fall down.

 

Not good for fishing hard water..... makes for weak ice.... too many layers but hey, last year the ice got almost to 3' feet in thinkness, just looks like we're going that way this year so far <_<

Jacques

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