Just a quick reminder: The Perseid meteor shower should peak tonight just before dawn, so if you can manage to haul outside between three and four ayem you are almost guaranteed to see some interplanetary grit hit the fan.
Look east, but pay attention to your peripheral vision, because the meteors can appear in any part of the sky. If your skies are good you might well see one every minute or so, and sometimes they come in bursts. And there’s always that long-shot hope of catching a bolide.
I’m about shot for tonight, but I will draw your attention to a previous entry I did on the Perseids, which are something of a tradition for Carol and me. (It also contains my now-legendary 13-line sonnet on the meteor shower, which demonstrates that I am neither poet nor mathematician.)
Take the Off! with you, especially if you live in Chicago. Trust me on that one.
We had good weather here in Minnesota, so I got out two nights in a row to watch. It was a pretty good show. In an hour I saw one or two really impressive ones, and smaller ones every couple minutes on average.
No mosquitoes, though. I guess they all went to Chicago. 🙂