My best friend and I heard about the fantastic Quadrantids meteor shower this year, we resolved to go out and see it. So we both dragged out our telescopes and headed out into the cold (30 degrees Fahrenheit, but with wind chill it was more like 18 degrees). Erm… we didn’t end up seeing anything. I was more than just perturbed. I had went out there in my canvas Converse shoes and 4 layers of shirts/hoodies/coat and I didn’t see a single meteor. I did see a plane, which I guess is close (if it had been on fire and streaking down from the sky, but it wasn’t even doing that.) It was also a bad premonition in the first place because my telescope was being ridiculously hard to put together. I had to take the legs and such off so that I could fit it in the carrying bag, but when I got to my best friend’s house, none of the lenses fit correctly and somewhere along the line we had screwed up putting it together because we couldn’t even see out of it.
So, erm, yeah. Stumbling around in 2 feet deep snow in the freezing cold trying to see an apparently non-existent meteor shower. I did get some great pictures of my friend and I while we were trying to keep warm. I’ll post them later.
