Little did I know, but apparently there is an annual Orionid Meteor Shower. This year it happened on October 21, 2007. Holly and I looked at a few maps of the stars to figure out where to look for the meteors. Finally learned a little something about the Orion constellation. Always knew about Orion's belt, but didn't know much beyond that. The origin of the meteor shower was supposed to be between Orion's left shoulder and Mars...looked but could not find Mars. We were looking in the right place though! Got up at 4AM early Sunday morning and hung outside for about 30-40 minutes and saw at least 8 or more "shooting stars." Haven't tried taking many night time pics, but I took my camera out and took some pics of Orion and Ursa Major/Minor...the Dippers. There was also a really really bright star I took a pic of...meant to search and see if I could figure out which star/planet it was, but never got to it. At first we thought it was a plane coming in...and after a while realized it wasn't getting any closer. It was fun and was a nice night, but we were dead the next morning at church.
Baby's First Constellation Photos
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