Traveling Cargopants

A journey into the west, the self, and beyond

Leonid meteor shower tonight

Hargobind | November 16, 2009

Sky-watchers in North America can expect to see up to 30 meteors hourly tonight as the annual Leonid meteor shower peaks in the wee hours of Tuesday, Nov. 17. Earth will cross the first meteor-producing stream on this date starting at around 1 a.m. PST, experts predict.
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Getting back to nature

Hargobind | August 26, 2009

I’ve been spending a lot of time in the last couple of weeks looking at the night sky. Where I live in Northern New Mexico, there are really big skies, and we’re far away enough from city lights where you can see shining stars clearly at night. There was the Perseid meteor shower in [...]