Sky Shooting...

Have you been in a snowy place? Especially have you driven in snow strom kind of snow fall? It is so good to drive around in snowfall, because we don't need to worry about skidding tyres (which actually happens after snowfall) and the other best thing is, the all those snow flakes especially seem to appear from one single spot ahead of us in the road. Really a great sight which gives a great soothing feeling!

Hmm.... Tonight's & early hours of tomorrow's celestial fireworks of 'Shooting Stars' is a much anticipated one! And here are some of the interesting details surrounding the watch of those fireworks.

And it seems the same optical illusion concept like that of the snow one works for these meteor showers too - The Perseids which are actually part the tail of the dusty Swift-Turtle comet, seems to fly out of the Perseus constellation!

People are ofcourse expected to be awake the whole night and try to get a glimpse of this great fireworks at the early hours of morrow. And it is simple enough. These dust particles are comet's left over after it has passed across the sun. So, as the earth rotates while revolving around the sun, the people who are about to see the sun (early dawn hours) should be able to see more dust particles!

Well, here is another vision concept -

"And shooting stars are best seen from out of the corner of your eye due to the way that the eye's most light-sensitive nerve cells are arranged away from the central focal point of the retina."
--Independent

I don't know if I'll be watching these "showers" tonight, but sure, this reminds me of some sweet memories when I used to wait at open terrace all night long with friends & watch such meteor sparks!:)