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| Flag at Night |
Capture California, the Game-2013
Adventure: 079 – Observe the
Night Sky
Team: YOLT
Date: August 12 and 13,
2013
Location: Ostrander
Lake
Description:
So what better place is there to observe the night sky, than the mountains? Particularly by a mountain lake at 8500'. But even better yet is to be able to observe the annual Pleiades meteor shower at its highest? That is what we were able to do. We had timed our backpack trip to Ostrander Lake to correspond with this meteor shower. Even better yet, the moon had set by the time the shower was at its best. The prediction was that there was to be about 60 meteors an hour at its fullest. So we woke up around 2:30 and watched for about an hour. The meteors would come streaking across from the northeast sky in groups of three or four. Then stop for a couple of minutes, then start back up again. Quite a show.
So what better place is there to observe the night sky, than the mountains? Particularly by a mountain lake at 8500'. But even better yet is to be able to observe the annual Pleiades meteor shower at its highest? That is what we were able to do. We had timed our backpack trip to Ostrander Lake to correspond with this meteor shower. Even better yet, the moon had set by the time the shower was at its best. The prediction was that there was to be about 60 meteors an hour at its fullest. So we woke up around 2:30 and watched for about an hour. The meteors would come streaking across from the northeast sky in groups of three or four. Then stop for a couple of minutes, then start back up again. Quite a show.
Now the one thing which was sort of
bad is that you want the skies to be dark to better see the stars.
But when we tried to take a picture of us and the flag, we could only
get a little bit of the flag's image with no stars. Better the thrill
of seeing the stars than showing the flag.
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