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Meteor showers....

by HeySal
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We got lucky out here. There's some fires going so the horizons are a bit hazy, but it's clear right overhead and that's where the meteors were/are. I just came in. I watched one break apart. It was incredible - like fireworks. In fact, something like that might have inspired fireworks. It's one of the 4 kewlest night sky events I've ever witnessed. There's supposed to be two more hours of peak yet, but they seem to be slowing down. Glad these were visible. Last one I missed due to cloud cover.
  • Profile picture of the author GrowTutor
    I live in a city and sometimes we forget just how much is up there. I love going to places where it gets truly dark and clear and being reminded of how small we really are.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by GrowTutor View Post

      I live in a city and sometimes we forget just how much is up there. I love going to places where it gets truly dark and clear and being reminded of how small we really are.
      I'm in Central Oregon - just outside of the Ochoco mountain range. I live 14 miles from anything and it's not all that heavily populated even in the few towns around here. Bend is around 80,000 and the largest town this side of the Cascades. It's awesome for sky out here. Yet - it's not as dark at night as it used to be even when you drive out a ways to get where the largest towns within a hundred mile radius are only one or two thousand, if they get to the 4 digits at all.

      The horizons are all a tad luminous as if the sun were just getting ready to rise. Just never seems dead dark anymore. During the day the same luminosity is visible in the sky color - it's a lighter more silvery blue than it used to be. Kinda glowy. Kinda scares me a little bit.

      It's still darker than elsewhere, though, so is one awesome place to stretch out at night and watch the sky.
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    Yeah, I've summered in Medford and rafted down the Bend. Things sure do change...

    You can still find some pretty dark spots in the deserts here or if you go far enough out to sea but the city sky glows and hides most of the stars and that is kind of sad. Imagine all of the city kids that have never seen what the night sky REALLY looks like.

    I've been growing weary of the city for a while now though, I'm probably heading someplace more...rural in the future.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by GrowTutor View Post

      Yeah, I've summered in Medford and rafted down the Bend. Things sure do change...

      You can still find some pretty dark spots in the deserts here or if you go far enough out to sea but the city sky glows and hides most of the stars and that is kind of sad. Imagine all of the city kids that have never seen what the night sky REALLY looks like.

      I've been growing weary of the city for a while now though, I'm probably heading someplace more...rural in the future.
      That's why I love the Western states. In some places you can travel hundreds of miles and run into not much of anything but maybe a ranch here or there. I've lived in the city - if you call that living. Saw a woman freak out over seeing a rabbit once. That's just too much city for me. I LIKE nature immersion a heck of a lot more than social immersion.
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