For the first time since we arrived in New Zealand, there are clear skies at night. We have some street lights around so viewing is not ideal, but in only four or five minutes I saw two meteors streak overhead.
It has been decades since I was an astronomy lab assistant spending hours looking up and I am lost in a sea of bright, beautiful stars that are foreign to me. I will have to get a guide to the southern sky that I can take with me to a dark area and have a good look around. If the clear skies prevail, the new moon will make for ideal stargazing, just in time for the weekend.
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