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Saturday, December 12, 2009

The popular Perseid meteor shower may get the fair-weather attention, but the real show comes in winter.

Most amateur stargazers huddle by the fireplace in December, when the Geminids rain debris above the Earth's atmosphere. A winter wallop has dropped temperatures to freezing in some parts of the nation, but don't let a difference of a few degrees Fahrenheit keep you from seeing the night show that NASA considers the "best meteor shower of 2009."

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The recent rains have helped to clear up some of the haze and pollution -- now you can see for miles. I'm going to go outside after 10:00 p.m. (if the rain has stopped) and check it out. With over 100 meteors per hour scheduled to light up the sky, maybe I can catch sight of at least a part of the meteor shower here in Southern California.

Check out this picture -- just breathtaking.

"Geminid Meteor Shower Over Monument Valley"

CC, that is beautiful! I wish it were larger, I would make it my desktop background.

" now you can see for miles"

Where the "f" do you live, it's raining like crazy in L.A.

Where the "f" do you live, it's raining like crazy in L.A.

Not the kind of "acid rain" I would like to catch on my tongue. That's a bummer.

It's overcast where I am but I love meteor showers.

Zombie...save the picture to your picture collection, then set it as your background. I just did, and it filled the screen. I've got a 22" flat.

Will do... the image must be pretty high resolution.

It does lose a wee bit of it's sharpness, but it's passable...

It looks fairly decent on my monitor, and that's a 17'' flat.

Cool. I just scored some new eye candy.

Where the "f" do you live, it's raining like crazy in L.A.

#4 | Posted by LetUsPrey at 2009-12-12 06:17 PM

I live in Burbank. Yes, it's raining like crazy but when it cleared up a little this week you could see for miles. When I said "now you can see for miles" I didn't necessarily mean at that EXACT second I was typing my post, dUmMy! lol

There are a few lulls in the rain, and there was for awhile early yesterday and the day before, albeit not for very long.

Zombie...save the picture to your picture collection, then set it as your background. I just did, and it filled the screen. I've got a 22" flat.

#6 | Posted by American1st at 2009-12-12 06:32 PM

A1--

I've just now made it my new desktop photo too. Sure is purty, ain't it!

btw, A1 --

I so enjoyed the photos you put up last night. You have a lovely family. I looked at each of the categories and your "My Thanksgiving Blessings" montage which you put up of your children and the other one of some old family photos in "Souvenirs" were beautifully done. The pictures of your little girl and her curly-red haired baby brother were delightful.

Being Irish myself, you know I really liked seeing those pictures of Ireland. So is being Irish where your son got his red hair? lol

Having musical backgrounds set to each photo group was really cool. I never knew one could do that with their photos -- combine them with a music background. I'm definitely going to learn how to do it some day. I've got boxes of regular non-digital pictures I need to upload so hopefully will one day soon I'll buy a scanner and get started. Then I'll work on putting them on a website such as the one you did. Anyway, they were great.

Wow--it worked!

Put the photo as my desktop background!

The show will be tonight too?

It was too cloudy last night.

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