Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Perseid meteor shower 2009




Sighting outer terrestrial activities has been fun and exciting. Even though it would require scientific equipments in place. for a layman having had a glimpse of some activities of this kind is for sure exciting.

my excitement and craziness to see and experience crazy things is all coz of the influence of my dad. like waiting on a footpath for hours togather to have a glimpse of prime minster or president passing by in his car( even though we were not able to make out which car the president was in, as all cars looked the same due to security reasons). taking us on a chopper and glider ride. dozing off at the planetarium seats and standing in queues to get solar glasses at the planetarium and list goes on.

Similarly, on Aug12th read a news on yahoo about perseid meteriod shower, then googled to check if we would see that at Singapore too and happended to see on yahoo answers, its possible to see from any part of the world.

Finally my hubby got somehow convinced to take me to hendersons bridge, it was surprising to me as he managed to climb around 150 steps up the hill after a heavy dinner around 11 in the night.

but we were not so fortunate enough, as it was fully cloudy and ended up taking snaps of the bridge. but then had a wonderful view of the city at night and a good talk before coming back.




Since we read it will be visible around 2am at Singapore, both of stayed awake till 2am to be still disappointed due to the clouds.