Anyone else as daft sat up at this hour watching?

Here's a couple of pics, both taken tonight 12th August

Milky Way in the background

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Great pictures. We are completely clouded over with lots of light pollution here in Telford. I was looking forward to seeing them tonight after finishing a night shift.

I saw a good meteorite last week when I was down on the Lizard peninsula. Completely clear skies, I was wishing I'd had room to take my DSLR, rather than my bridge camera, as that only had a max exposure time of 4 seconds. I was looking at the Milky Way and saw a meteorite with a great sparkly firey tail. It was the first I'd seen like that, most are just normal shooting stars. That would have been a cracking picture for want of having the gear set up.

its as dark as dark here so I guess I get blazee about the stars , they are just there, but then townies come here for a BBQ etc, when it gets dark they are all walking round staring upwards, crashing into trees etc, more fun watching that than the stars  At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

I remember that bin Tasmania, there are way more stars down there and darker skies, I used to lie on the ground, amazing how many fell over me