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Posted by: Zyngaru
« on: December 15, 2025, 08:48:07 am »

I hope you get to see it.

Remember that back in the day such things in the night sky were considered omens.  I always found it interesting how some claimed the same event as a good omen and others a bad omen.  I guess if it were two armies going into battle, that event would be seen as both a bad and good omen depending on if you won or lost.
Posted by: Emlyn Morgan
« on: December 14, 2025, 04:51:26 pm »

The sky is clear tonight so I put on my warmest jellaba and went up the stairs  on to the roof.

 Should I explain that roofs are flat around here?  I remember a story - Daoud the Beloved - set in Morocco I wrote many many years ago on mmsa where I described  caning activity on a roof. A helpful reader suggested I should have made it clear that it was a flat roof.  It just hadn't occurred to me that many readers might imagine the roof was sloping.

Anyway, as I was saying. They say you should wait thirty minutes to get your night eyes and scan the sky near to Castor, or is it Pollux. They're not far apart anyway. I would have been happy to see just one or two meteors. But nothing, zilch, wallo.

Oh well, maybe tomorrow night.