I'll be out of town for a few days. I took this photo of the early evening rosy glow tonight about 8:10 PM. See the mountain in the background? Mt. Rainier and a half a moon.
Don't forget to watch the Persius Shower of Stars tonight and tomorrow. Look up around mid-night, out here anyway, in the North eastern sky.
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The annual Perseid meteor shower is expected to put on a good display of shooting stars in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday.
The best views will be from rural locations away from light pollution, where up to 60 meteors per hour could be seen, weather permitting. Urban and suburban skywatchers can expect far fewer.
The Perseids are bits of debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle.The debris is like a river of small particles in space, and each year, Earth passes through it. As the bits zoom through our atmosphere at 37 miles per second (60 kps) they vaporize, creating the brilliant streaks of light. Most of the meteors are no larger than a grain of sand.
The shower is typically best between midnight and dawn, when the side of Earth you are standing on is plowing into the stream as our planet plunges through space in its orbit around the sun. It's similar to how bugs hit the windshield of a moving car but rarely smack into the rear bumper.
The annual shower begins as a trickle in mid-July and will continue to spark a handful of shooting stars for several nights to come. But Earth passes through the densest part of the stream Aug. 12 at around 7 a.m. ET (1100 GMT). The moon will set around 1:30 a.m. local time (regardless of your location), leaving the sky dark for a few hours of optimal meteor watching across much of North America.
"There should be plenty of meteors -- perhaps one or two every minute," said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Cooke said the brightest Perseids can be seen from a city, but the majority are too faint and are visible only from rural locations.
Some day I hope to see a spectacular meteor shower. It won't be tonight, though, as we are covered with clouds. I have made a point of watching meteor showers in the past, but have only seen a few meteors. Perhaps I'm just too impatient or expecting too much.
Enjoy your trip.
Great pic, but dont start your post with Adios, I got scared. LOL.
Have some nice days, MB!
Have a great trip.
Very beautiful. Unfortunately( or fortunately??), we slept right through the meteor shower. Enjoyed looking through your photos today.
I have also been out of town for a while... It has been difficult to reply to comments (and even to post LOL)!!!
Have a nice stay out of town!!!
Have a fun time away. Hpe you got to see the meteor show! Too cloudy here. ;-(
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Too foggy outside on the balcony of Chez la Vache to see the stars tonight....
Beautiful shot, MB! Thanks for the heads up :) on the meteor showers. Have a good journey.
I didnt saw the shower!
Great photo!
Take the computer with you and have a good stay :)
I don't come here as often as I should, so sorry! Great photos as always! Where are you off too this time? Enjoy your trip and safe travels dear one! Hugs!!
Have a nice break! Beautiful shot!
Hey, get back here!!!
gorgeous colors... I forgot about the meteor shower but we had a lot of clouds and rain here so I'm not sure I would have seen much anyway. I got a pretty good look at them last year though.
Enjoy your trip!
Lovely photo.
Hope you're having a good time!
Nope, didn't get up to see meteors, even though we had an unusual clear possible sighting time, on night. :-)
I did try it a couple of times, way back when. But too early in the night. I'm just not able to function, mid-way between night and morning.
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MB, let's see ... you're off on the next leg of a Vespa adventure? It's a relay race, right? :)
Hope you're having a good time wherever you are.
I come back and you leave LOL
Have a wonderful trip and hurry back with some great photos :)
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