LOTS OF SHOOTING STARS

I thought I could see there was a lot of shooting stars through my scope tonight........but then it is Bonfire Night, I guess.
It's like WWIII out there and probably the most fireworks displays we had around here for years

 

I live on the edge of town whith fields only a hundred yards away but even so the local area has gone mad with fireworks. The Observatory, with the Shutter open, funnels all the sound into the inside so I think I might need ear defenders I might wear a helmet just in case a falling rocket comes down through the shutter!

 

There must be thousands of pounds literally going up in smoke around us tonight - I don't know how folks can afford it?

 

Nothing different here there's always fireworks around,its when its quiet that's when we start to worry,you want to try living in the fork of a tree on a night like this,

 

When I was a kid the Bonfire was in the middle of the street, which was untarmaced, and was made from old furniture, logs, timber, anything that people didn't want was put on the Bonfire. It was sometimes so big that it would crack the glass windows of the Houses either side of it. We had a few rockets but, in those days, it was mostly Bangers of varying and explosive, Ripraps [like Chinese Crackers] etc. My Mum and her neighbour used to stand together in front of our house to watch what was going on and my brother and sisters used to drop Ripraps from the front bedroom window behind them One of my sisters and her friend used to get a bundle of bangers held together with elastic bands, light them and throw them through the front doors of our local, long suffering, but good, Police Station....and then run off!!! To look at pics of her then and now you would think that was the last thing she would have done.

 

Good morning @daitheplant my friend I shall have to google nocturnal no it turns out that I am crepuscularin my habits