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Geminid meteor shower
By: Emlyn Morgan Date: December 14, 2025, 4:51 pm
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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.
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Re: Geminid meteor shower
By: Zyngaru Date: December 15, 2025, 8:48 am
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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.
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