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profdant139
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Aug 07, 2015

Perseids next Wed nite/Thurs am -- hit the boonies!

We are heading out, hoping for dry clear skies. In California, there is a lot of smoke, so we are crossing our fingers. The peak of the shower is at 1 am Pacific time on Thursday morning, but NASA s...
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profdant139
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Aug 15, 2015
Frizzen, the moon will set at midnight in 2016 -- not great, but ok. 2017 is a bust -- lots of moonlight. 2018 looks like the next good year, with an early evening moonset.

I just got back from our trip to the Sierra to see the Perseids. Bottom line -- it was pretty good but not great. Lots of haze and smoke from forest fires -- there was nowhere to go to escape the smoke. I am working on a blog post about our little trip -- it will be posted in a couple of weeks.

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