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The Leonid meteor showers of 1833 over Niagara Falls by Edmund Weiss
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Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over N. America 190 yrs ago #onthisday on the night of Nov 12-13th, 1833, pictured in E. Weiß's Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888).⠀ ⠀ More meteors (and comets) in our post "Flowers of the Sky" — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky #otd
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Stargazing on an island
Not much of a stargazer as the light pollution dissuades me from doing so, but the Leonid meteor shower in the series got me googling.
Using the placeholder 2020 wherein Akira Amano first published her manga as she based the date on this particular year. Toto and Ron could have attended the stargazing viewing party on a Tuesday to Wednesday.
As Leonids always happen in the month of November, reaching the peak on the 17th and 18th, they will happen this year during the weekend, which for the anime makes more sense as it will fall on a Friday to Saturday. Toto would take a dayoff on the next day.
This is the famous Leonid meteor storm in 1833.
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Nandan Island could be the Nansei Islands or the Ryukyu Island.
Many Japanese people would associate sugarcane with Okinawa. Except for some areas in Shikoku, where the plant is grown, Tanegashima is the northern limit for the growth of sugarcane. Indeed, in Japan, sugarcane is widely grown on the Nansei Islands, including Okinawa. Although we tend to think that sugarcane is grown under the blue sky and against the blue ocean, it is harvested in the cold season, specifically during December to around April. ( x )
There are several islands (Okinawa Prefecture and the islands close to it) in Japan where stargazing is very popular.
If you have the chance to view the Leonids tonight then lucky you. It is raining where I am.
#kamonohashi ron no kindan suiri#ron kamonohashi#totomaru isshiki#akira amano#ron kamonohashi: deranged detective#Leonid meteor shower#rkdd wall of text#stargazing in Japan#ron kamonohashi’s forbidden deductions
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Leonids 1998: A Safe Meteor Storm
Credits: W. Pacholka
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Under the Stars
A/N: Finally. Finally! This fic is finished! Well, as good as it's gonna get. Massive thanks to @ariamichel for your help and support getting through this one!
Pairing: Lucifer x Delphi
Word count: 3.4k
Warnings: Biting (always biting...), mention of a traffic accident in the past, and I think that's it? As always, let me know if I missed anything
Summary: Delphi takes Lucifer to the human world to watch a once-in-a-lifetime meteor storm
After dinner, Delphi practically sprints back to her room to pack. By her watch, she has two hours until sunset in the human world. It’ll take her no time to get there, but it’ll take an hour to get to her spot and another half hour to get the tripod, camera, and telescope set up. She has to get moving.
She grabs her duffel and shoves a blanket, a pillow, and a change of clothes in it. Then she digs out her car keys and cellphone from her bedside table. Even if it doesn’t have a charge, she can charge it in the car on the way. She knows that her telescope and tripod are in the trunk of her Outback, along with a couple camp chairs, a card table, and a cooler that she can fill with ice and drinks. There’s also a portable hammock stand and a hammock in there somewhere, though she isn’t sure all the wing nuts are there for the stand.
Finally, she heads back to the kitchen to grab a couple snacks from the cabinets. As she packs a small bag, mostly full of non-perishables like chips and a spicy trail mix that Mammon had introduced her to, she’s too preoccupied to notice someone enter the kitchen behind her.
“I was expecting to find Beel raiding the kitchen, not you,” Lucifer says, his voice soft with a hint of amusement.
Delphi whips around, slamming her head into a cabinet door as she does. “OW! Fuck, Lucifer! How many times? How many times do I have to ask you to make some more noise when you walk into a room?”
She prods at her head tenderly, pulling back her fingers every now and then to check that she isn’t bleeding. Satisfied, she turns back to close the cabinet, before looking back to Lucifer. He’s leaning on the island, looking gorgeous as usual, an amused smirk curling up the corners of his lips. She can’t help but smile, seeing him there.
“Anyway, despite the concussion that I almost certainly have now, you’re exactly the demon I was hoping to run into. I had something I wanted to ask you.”
Lucifer raised an eyebrow. “Does it have something to do with why you’re raiding the cabinets?”
She laughs, “It does, actually! I’m going up to the human world for the night and I wanted to see if you would come with me.”
He narrows his eyes at her. “Why are you going up to the human world?”
Delphi’s face lights up as she begins, “So, the Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight. It’s the most spectacular of the year. And astronomers are predicting this year’s to be a meteor storm. They’re saying it could peak at 20,000 meteors or more per hour. If it makes it to that, it’ll look like it’s raining stars. Or like the sky’s falling. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime sight for a lot of humans.”
Resting on his elbows, Lucifer asks, “Will it be a once-in-a-lifetime sight for you?”
Delphi shakes her head, her gaze shifting to somewhen long ago. “No, I’ve seen it before. There was a cluster of storms between 1999 and 2002 that I got to see. But they only peaked at around 3000 per hour. 20,000…I can’t even imagine.”
As she’s staring wistfully into the past, Lucifer moves around the island to stand in front of her and grasps her hands. He brings both of them up and kisses the back of each, giving her a soft smile.
“Of course I’ll go with you, love. When do we need to leave?”
Smiling ear-to-ear, Delphi tilts her head to look at her watch. “No more than fifteen minutes from now. I have everything packed, it’s just a matter of if you want to bring anything now.”
“I don’t need to bring anything,” Lucifer chuckles, kissing the backs of her hands again. “Let’s go.”
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“What in the world is that?”
Delphi giggles, opening the rear driver’s side door of her beaten-up Subaru with a sickening creak. “This is Celia, my 2010 Subaru Outback. I know she’s pretty banged up; my brother rolled her a few years back. But her engine is still pristine and her tires are brand new. She’ll get us where we’re going safe and sound, I promise. Have you really not met her yet?”
She tosses the duffel and snack bags into the back seat as Lucifer shakes his head, then finesses the door closed, jiggling the handle until she feels it latch. She climbs into the driver’s seat, grinning as Lucifer pulls at the passenger’s side handle to no avail. She starts the engine before leaning over and opening the door for her very perplexed and highly annoyed demon.
“Sorry,” she laughs as Lucifer gets in and pointedly fastens his seatbelt. “Since the accident, that door only opens from the inside. Usually I’ll leave the window down in the garage, but I’ve been gone for so long that I didn’t want to risk it.”
“And you never thought to get your car repaired after your brother ‘rolled it’?” Lucifer asks, crossing his long legs.
“Oh, I couldn’t afford that shit,” Delphi snorts. “I couldn’t afford a new car either. So, Celia got the necessary work to function and we kept going.”
“We can buy you a new car, or get this one repaired if you’d prefer.”
Delphi huffs out a laugh, pulling out of the garage and onto the road. “I’d like to get Celia fixed up one day. But she’s okay for now. Anyway, you might as well settle in. It’s an hour drive to the farm we’re going to.”
“Does your family own this farm?” Lucifer asks. “I know you don’t speak to them but-“
“No,” Delphi interrupts. “It’s not my family’s. The land belongs to my former boss and her wife. I got pretty close with them after my mom pulled her bullshit. They let me come out here whenever there’s a meteor shower. I just text them when I’m coming out and they keep the dogs put away, leave me to it. We won’t have to worry about anybody sneaking up on us or anything.”
“Was that a worry?” Lucifer looks over at her with eyebrows raised.
“It’s always a worry out in the country,” Delphi laughs.
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They arrive at the gate with forty-five minutes to spare, just enough time to get to her stargazing spot and get set up. Delphi parks the car and gets out to open the gate, waving at Lucifer to stay put. She giggles as he tries to protest, “I’ve been doing this for years, I don’t need any help. Just stay there while I open the gate.”
After the car is pulled through and the gate is closed again, Delphi navigates down a wooded trail to a massive grassy clearing. She parks the car and hops out, beckoning for Lucifer to join her. She tosses him the duffel and instructs him to spread the blanket while she sets up her telescope and camera. The sky is already nearly completely dark, so she sets up her tripod and telescope using her headlights.
When everything is finally set up, Delphi lets out a contented sigh. “I’m gonna shut off the car, now. I know you’ll be able to see, but my eyes will need a minute to adjust.”
“Would you like help getting to the blanket?” Lucifer offers, only half teasing.
Delphi rolls her eyes, but smiles. She shuts off the car and closes the door, dousing the clearing in a sudden inky darkness. Her vision is nearly completely black, so she rests her back against Celia until a gloved hand takes hers and tugs her gently away. She lets him lead her to the blanket and guide her down to sitting. Delphi thinks that's that. But after a moment of rustling that she determines had to be Lucifer sitting down, he pulls her into his lap, chuckling at her startled yelp.
“The stars really are beautiful here,” Lucifer muses, resting his chin on the top of Delphi’s head as he holds her close.
Delphi huffs, “I wouldn’t know. I still can’t see.”
She focuses her eyes at the sky, able to see a few stars beginning to appear in her field of vision. It’ll take a few more minutes before her eyes are fully adjusted but she can see a few meteors already, falling like a dripping faucet to the earth.
“Oh, Lucifer, do you see them?” she sighs, gripping his forearms where they’re wrapped around her shoulders.
“I do,” he responds. “This is hardly 20,000 per hour.”
Delphi giggles, still staring up at the stars. “We won’t see that rate until later. If we see it. Those rates usually don’t happen until just before sunrise. Around two or three.”
As her eyes adjust to the low light, thousands more silvery stars begin to appear above her. The Leonids fall above her like rain, streaking the sky with their icy glow and taking her breath away. And this wasn’t even the true peak.
“I can see why ancient humans might have thought that the sky was falling or the world was ending when something like this happened,” Delphi breathes, unable to bring her voice above a whisper. She stares into the sky with reverence and awe. “It looks like it’s raining stars. They must have been terrified.”
Lucifer chuckles, grabbing her by the hips and turning her in his lap to straddle him. He looks into her eyes and pushes one loose pink curl behind her ear and adds in a low breath, “Until they woke the next morning. To find that the sun had risen on a new day and they were very much alive.”
“Obviously,” Delphi scoffs, rolling her eyes. The fond smile doesn’t leave her delicate lips as she drapes her arms over Lucifer’s shoulders and wraps her legs around his waist.
“What is it about the stars that fascinates you so?” Lucifer asks, rubbing the exposed skin of her hips with his thumbs.
Delphi lets out a wistful sigh, looking back up at the sky where the rain of light continues. “There’s a certain romanticism to the stars and the night sky,” she tries to explain as the display above shines in her eyes. “Humans have always had this sense of adventure and discovery. We sailed the oceans to find out what was on the other side. We trekked through jungles and climbed mountains and explored the depths of caves, all just to find out what was there. And we’ve dreamed about doing the same with the stars since ancient times. We’ve called them angels and souls, come up with stories about how they were formed and how the constellations were placed. All of that to try to understand, to get closer to them.
“But we can’t. Not really. Because each star we see in the night sky is a sun like ours, millions of lightyears away. Possibly surrounded by its own solar system, providing life to its own people, different from us but still the same. Looking out into space and wondering the same things we do: if there’s more out there, if there are others out there, who think and feel and love like we do. And…I really didn’t mean to get so existential there.”
Delphi laughs, cheeks burning as she rests her head on Lucifer’s chest. She giggles into his tie, “I would have been an astrophysicist if I was any good at physics.”
“Will you never cease to amaze me?” Lucifer breathes. He carefully takes her chin in his hand and gently lifts her face to look at him.
The light of the stars and the celestial rain catch his dark hair just right to form a silvery halo around his head. Though Delphi has seen him in visions before the fall, with his golden halo and his six dove-white wings, she can’t imagine him any more beautiful than he is right now: dressed in black and red and glowing silver in the starlight. Without another thought, she takes his face in her hands and brings her lips to his in a soft kiss.
It's moments like these that she loves the most. Resting here in Lucifer’s arms, no worries, no cares, just his lips moving against hers slowly, languidly, like they have all the time in the world. And maybe they do, she thinks as she feels his hands move from her hips to slide under her shirt, his fingertips tracing her curves and leaving trails of heat in their wake. She feels him grin against her lips as she arches her back in response to her touch and she rolls her eyes.
As Lucifer pulls away to trail kisses along her jaw, Delphi finds herself shivering, goosebumps tracing the pathways of her nerves along her skin. She clings to him, heat pooling in her lower abdomen as he sinks his teeth into the soft skin of her neck, leaving purplish bruises behind. Her moans ring out into the stillness of the night, low and breathy at first but gaining pitch and volume as she grinds down on the bulge in Lucifer’s slacks. She wants him. She wants all of him. Here, under the stars and the meteor rain, she wants to taste eternity with him if for only this one night.
She shivers again as he pushes her jacket off her shoulders, this time from the cool November air hitting her bare skin. He trails his hands down her arms, stopping at the hem of her shirt.
“Don't stop,” Delphi whispers, taking his hands and guiding them under the olive green fabric.
Lucifer obliges, lifting her shirt up and over her head. As he tosses it to the side, he raises an eyebrow. “How very naughty, my love,” he rumbles into the delicate flesh of her throat, the contact leaving her pact mark burning and tingling pleasantly. His hands wander to her bare breasts and he massages them gently, taking first one nipple and then the other and rolling them between him fingers.
“Just wait…until you see…what’s under my jeans,” Delphi pants, leaning into his touch.
Lucifer pulls back, grinning wickedly at her. “And just what exactly is under your jeans?”
Feeling her face burning along with her pact mark, Delphi smiles coyly, “Why not find out?”
She lays back, arching her back so that she can rest her head against the blanket. Lucifer slowly undoes the button and the zipper of her jeans, caressing the bare skin of her hips as he pulls them down. He chuckles, “Very naughty, indeed. Did you plan this the entire time?”
“It’s laundry day,” Delphi replies with a laugh. She lets him finish pulling off her jeans, then takes his offered hand and allows Lucifer to pull her back up into his lap.
He places soft kisses along her jaw and neck, moving down to her collarbones and across her chest with an appreciative hum. He raises his eyes to meet hers and murmurs into her skin, “You are a wonder, my love.”
“A very cold wonder,” Delphi mutters, giving him an apologetic smile. Despite how warm he is, she’s losing feeling in her fingers and toes. With a chuckle, Lucifer removes his coat and drapes it over her shoulders. This time when Delphi shivers, it’s with delight at the sudden warmth. “Much better.”
“Good,” Lucifer purrs, bringing his lips back to her bare chest. His ruby eyes glow in the low light as his gaze rakes over her exposed form.
Delphi melts under the heat of his gaze, grinding down on him once more before he grasps her hips and holds her in place. He gives her a sly grin. “Patience, love. We have all night, remember?”
Delphi whines, wiggling her hips, “I don’t want to wait all night! Please, Lucifer? Just this once, don’t make me wait.”
As she pleads, she begins undoing the buttons of his vest, continuing until she reaches the waistband of his slacks. She looks up at him with a pout. “Lucifer?”
The demon sighs, an exasperated smile on his face. “How can I ever say no to you? My lovely little human.”
Delphi makes quick work of the remaining barriers between them then positions herself over his already leaking tip. As she sinks down onto his shaft, his girth feeling as though it might split her in two, she lets out a high moan, eyes rolling back into her skull. She bounces lightly, getting accustomed to him a little at a time, until he’s fully seated within her soaked walls.
“I love you,” she whispers as she begins to move, rolling her hips agonizingly slowly. She wraps her arms around his shoulders, pulling Lucifer in close enough to press kisses into his neck and jaw. She continues at her languid pace, whispering into his ear again and again, “I love you, I love you, I love you…”
She brings her hands up to tangle in his hair, reveling in the low groan that rips from her demon’s chest as she grips his hair tightly and pulls. The warmth gathering in her belly spreads, causing her legs to tremble and her breath to become uneven. But she continues exactly as she is, rolling her hips onto his length with every whispered declaration of love, driving him mad.
Lucifer tries to be good, tries to allow her to take things at her own pace, but he is a demon. How can he resist her temptation when the scent of her arousal wraps around him like the morning fog, sweet and intoxicating? When she’s entirely nude and stretched around him so beautifully? He grasps her hips tightly and holds her in place, slamming up into her at a pace that she’s sure will leave her bruised but feels absolutely wonderful. Delphi clings to him, grabbing fistfuls of his dark gray button-down as hand holds as he pounds into her relentlessly, ripping cries of ecstasy from her lips.
Tear prick at the corners of her eyes as Delphi cries, “Fuck, L-Lucifer!”
“You are absolutely perfect, my love,” Lucifer whispers into the shell of her ear. The way she clenches around him at the sensation of his breath in her ear drags a deep groan from his chest. He snakes one hand up between her shoulder blades and commands, “Lie back. I want to see you.”
Delphi nods, heat rising even further into her cheeks and to the tips of her ears. She allows him to shift their position so that she lies on her back and he towers over her, eyes fixated on where their bodies connect, where she stretches so beautifully around him. It makes his heart ache, realizing how much love he can feel for one being. One human.
Taking one of her hands in his and pinning it above her head, Lucifer leans down to capture Delphi’s lips in a soft, reverent kiss. He whispers into her lips, “You are so beautiful.”
He resumes thrusting into her, slower, more deliberate, hitting her every sweet spot. Delphi whines, arching her back and spreading her legs wider. She grips his hand tightly as his other lightly caresses her side, her hip, her inner thigh. She shivers under his touch, the tension in her belly growing. With every drag of his shaft against her walls, it builds until she’s panting and whimpering and begging for release.
“I’m so close, Luci,” she whines into his kiss. “Please-!”
Lucifer chuckles, moving to place a kiss just below her ear. He asks breathily, “Do you want to come, love?”
She nods desperately, every muscle in her body tense and eyes shut tight.
“We came to watch the stars,” Lucifer breathes, taking her earlobe between his teeth. “Open your eyes, my love.”
Delphi does as she’s told, looking up into the night sky to watch once again as the stars seem to fall like rain above them. As she watches the meteor storm above, Lucifer snaps his hips into hers, harder and faster until she’s clenching around him and tears are falling from her wide-open eyes as she cries out her release. Lucifer follows soon after, gripping her hip tightly as he fills her with his seed.
“Remind me to come stargazing with you more often,” Lucifer laughs, breathless, into her ear.
Delphi giggles, running her free hand through his hair. “The next time we can do this will probably be the Lyrids in April. Put it on your calendar.”
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In the pre-dawn hours of November 12, 1833, the sky over North America seemed to explode with falling stars. Unlike anything anyone had ever seen before, and visible over the entire continent, an Illinois newspaper reported “the very heavens seemed ablaze.” An Alabama newspaper described “thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction.” Observers in Boston estimated that there were over 72,000 “falling stars” visible per hour during the remarkable celestial storm.
The Lakota people were so amazed by the event that they reset their calendar to commemorate it. Joseph Smith, traveling with Mormon refugees, noted in his diary that it was surely a sign of the Second Coming. Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, among many others, described seeing it. It became known as “The Night the Stars Fell.”
So, what was this amazing occurrence?
Many of those who witnessed it interpreted it as a sign of the Biblical end times, remembering words from the gospel of St. Mark: “And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.” But Yale astronomer Denison Olmsted sought a scientific explanation, and shortly afterwards he issued a call to the public—perhaps the first scientific crowd-sourced data gathering effort. At Olmsted’s request, newspapers across the country printed his call for data: “As the cause of ‘Falling Stars’ is not understood by meteorologists, it is desirable to collect all the facts attending this phenomenon, stated with as much precision as possible. The subscriber, therefore, requests to be informed of any particulars which were observed by others, respecting the time when it was first discovered, the position of the radiant point above mentioned, whether progressive or stationary, and of any other facts relative to the meteors.”
Olmsted published his conclusions the following year, the information he had received from lay observers having helped him draw new scientific conclusions in the study of meteors and meteor showers. He noted that the shower radiated from a point in the constellation Leo and speculated that it was caused by the earth passing through a cloud of space dust. The event, and the public’s fascination with it, caused a surge of interest in “citizen science” and significantly increased public scientific awareness.
Nowadays we know that every November the earth passes through the debris in the trail of a comet known as Tempel-Tuttle, causing the meteor showers we know as the Leonids. Impressive every year, every 33 year or so they are especially spectacular, although very rarely attaining the magnificence of the 1833 event.
The Leonid meteor showers are ongoing now and are expected to peak on November 18. But don’t expect a show like the one in 1833. This year at its peak the Leonids are expected to generate 15 “shooting stars” per hour.
November 12, 1833, one hundred eighty-nine years ago today, was “The Night the Stars Fell.”
The image is an 1889 depiction of the event.
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In the pre-dawn hours of November 12, 1833, the sky over North America seemed to explode with falling stars. Unlike anything anyone had ever seen before, and visible over the entire continent, an Illinois newspaper reported “the very heavens seemed ablaze.” An Alabama newspaper described “thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction.” Observers in Boston estimated that there were over 72,000 “falling stars” visible per hour during the remarkable celestial storm.
The Lakota people were so amazed by the event that they reset their calendar to commemorate it. Joseph Smith, traveling with Mormon refugees, noted in his diary that it was surely a sign of the Second Coming. Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, among many others, described seeing it. It became known as “The Night the Stars Fell.”
So, what was this amazing occurrence?
Many of those who witnessed it interpreted it as a sign of the Biblical end times, remembering words from the gospel of St. Mark: “And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.” But Yale astronomer Denison Olmsted sought a scientific explanation, and shortly afterwards he issued a call to the public—perhaps the first scientific crowd-sourced data gathering effort. At Olmsted’s request, newspapers across the country printed his call for data: “As the cause of ‘Falling Stars’ is not understood by meteorologists, it is desirable to collect all the facts attending this phenomenon, stated with as much precision as possible. The subscriber, therefore, requests to be informed of any particulars which were observed by others, respecting the time when it was first discovered, the position of the radiant point above mentioned, whether progressive or stationary, and of any other facts relative to the meteors.”
Olmsted published his conclusions the following year, the information he had received from lay observers having helped him draw new scientific conclusions in the study of meteors and meteor showers. He noted that the shower radiated from a point in the constellation Leo and speculated that it was caused by the earth passing through a cloud of space dust. The event, and the public’s fascination with it, caused a surge of interest in “citizen science” and significantly increased public scientific awareness.
Nowadays we know that every November the earth passes through the debris in the trail of a comet known as Tempel-Tuttle, causing the meteor showers we know as the Leonids. Impressive every year, every 33 year or so they are especially spectacular, although very rarely attaining the magnificence of the 1833 event.
The Leonid meteor showers are ongoing now and are expected to peak on November 18. But don’t expect a show like the one in 1833. This year at its peak the Leonids are expected to generate 15 “shooting stars” per hour.
November 12, 1833, one hundred eighty-nine years ago today, was “The Night the Stars Fell.”
The image is an 1889 depiction of the event.
[A Daily Dose of History]
#A Daily Dose of History#stars#star shower#Tempel-Tuttle#comets#Leonids#Leonid meteor showers#The Night the Stars Fell
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what if crowley caused the leonid meteor storm of 1833 because he was so upset that humanity wouldn't be around long enough to witness the real magnificence of the stars
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In the pre-dawn hours of November 12, 1833, the sky over North America seemed to explode with falling stars. Unlike anything anyone had ever seen before, and visible over the entire continent, an Illinois newspaper reported “the very heavens seemed ablaze.” An Alabama newspaper described “thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction.” Observers in Boston estimated that there were over 72,000 “falling stars” visible per hour during the remarkable celestial storm.
The Lakota people were so amazed by the event that they reset their calendar to commemorate it. Joseph Smith, traveling with Mormon refugees, noted in his diary that it was surely a sign of the Second Coming. Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, among many others, described seeing it. It became known as “The Night the Stars Fell.”
So, what was this amazing occurrence?
Many of those who witnessed it interpreted it as a sign of the Biblical end times, remembering words from the gospel of St. Mark: “And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.” But Yale astronomer Denison Olmsted sought a scientific explanation, and shortly afterwards he issued a call to the public—perhaps the first scientific crowd-sourced data gathering effort. At Olmsted’s request, newspapers across the country printed his call for data: “As the cause of ‘Falling Stars’ is not understood by meteorologists, it is desirable to collect all the facts attending this phenomenon, stated with as much precision as possible. The subscriber, therefore, requests to be informed of any particulars which were observed by others, respecting the time when it was first discovered, the position of the radiant point above mentioned, whether progressive or stationary, and of any other facts relative to the meteors.”
Olmsted published his conclusions the following year, the information he had received from lay observers having helped him draw new scientific conclusions in the study of meteors and meteor showers. He noted that the shower radiated from a point in the constellation Leo and speculated that it was caused by the earth passing through a cloud of space dust. The event, and the public’s fascination with it, caused a surge of interest in “citizen science” and significantly increased public scientific awareness.
Nowadays we know that every November the earth passes through the debris in the trail of a comet known as Tempel-Tuttle, causing the meteor showers we know as the Leonids. Impressive every year, every 33 year or so they are especially spectacular, although very rarely attaining the magnificence of the 1833 event.
The Leonid meteor showers are ongoing now and are expected to peak on November 18. But don’t expect a show like the one in 1833. This year at its peak the Leonids are expected to generate 15 “shooting stars” per hour.
November 12, 1833, one hundred eighty-nine years ago today, was “The Night the Stars Fell.”
The image is an 1889 depiction of the event.
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From A Daily Dose of History on Facebook:
In the pre-dawn hours of November 12, 1833, the sky over North America seemed to explode with falling stars. Unlike anything anyone had ever seen before, and visible over the entire continent, an Illinois newspaper reported “the very heavens seemed ablaze.” An Alabama newspaper described “thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction.” Observers in Boston estimated that there were over 72,000 “falling stars” visible per hour during the remarkable celestial storm.
The Lakota people were so amazed by the event that they reset their calendar to commemorate it. Joseph Smith, traveling with Mormon refugees, noted in his diary that it was surely a sign of the Second Coming. Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, among many others, described seeing it. It became known as “The Night the Stars Fell.”
So, what was this amazing occurrence?
Many of those who witnessed it interpreted it as a sign of the Biblical end times, remembering words from the gospel of St. Mark: “And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.” But Yale astronomer Denison Olmsted sought a scientific explanation, and shortly afterwards he issued a call to the public—perhaps the first scientific crowd-sourced data gathering effort. At Olmsted’s request, newspapers across the country printed his call for data: “As the cause of ‘Falling Stars’ is not understood by meteorologists, it is desirable to collect all the facts attending this phenomenon, stated with as much precision as possible. The subscriber, therefore, requests to be informed of any particulars which were observed by others, respecting the time when it was first discovered, the position of the radiant point above mentioned, whether progressive or stationary, and of any other facts relative to the meteors.”
Olmsted published his conclusions the following year, the information he had received from lay observers having helped him draw new scientific conclusions in the study of meteors and meteor showers. He noted that the shower radiated from a point in the constellation Leo and speculated that it was caused by the earth passing through a cloud of space dust. The event, and the public’s fascination with it, caused a surge of interest in “citizen science” and significantly increased public scientific awareness.
Nowadays we know that every November the earth passes through the debris in the trail of a comet known as Tempel-Tuttle, causing the meteor showers we know as the Leonids. Impressive every year, every 33 year or so they are especially spectacular, although very rarely attaining the magnificence of the 1833 event.
The Leonid meteor showers are ongoing now and are expected to peak on November 18. But don’t expect a show like the one in 1833. This year at its peak the Leonids are expected to generate 15 “shooting stars” per hour.
November 12, 1833, one hundred eighty-nine years ago today, was “The Night the Stars Fell.”
The image is an 1889 depiction of the event.
From The Irish Times:
In Maury County, Tennessee, a small girl, born into slavery, was awoken in her cot by the sound of screaming.
The story of Amanda Young, who died in 1920, was recounted in 2010 by her great-great granddaughter Angela Y Walton-Raji as part of a family oral history. Walton-Raji had travelled to Chicago to meet her own elderly cousin, Frances Swader, and to hear from her Young’s story.
Walton-Raji reported Young’s words thus: “Somebody in the quarters started yellin’ in the middle of the night to come out and to look up at the sky. We went outside and there they was a-fallin’ everywhere!
“Big stars coming down real close to the groun’ and just before they hit the ground they would burn up! We was all scared. Some o’ the folks was screamin’, and some was prayin’. We all made so much noise, the white folks came out to see what was happenin’. They looked up and then they got scared, too.
“But then the white folks started callin’ all the slaves together, and for no reason, they started tellin’ some of the slaves who their mothers and fathers was, and who they’d been sold to and where. The old folks was so glad to hear where their people went. They made sure we all knew what happened … you see, they thought it was Judgement Day.”
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1, 2, and 7!! :)
1. how would you describe the world your story takes place in?
Recreation's world is both post apocalyptic and completely mundane. The event itself isn't really relevant to the personal lives of the main characters, but essentially, during the 1833 Leonid Meteor storm, multiple meteors crashed into the earth and destroyed a majority of eastern europe, the west coasts of America, and a sizeable chunk of Russia and China(but not nearly as catastrophically as the other places). The story itself takes place in 2014 and there is a common belief that the meteors brought supernatural forces into the world (though most cannot agree what exactly that entails)- A belief that the main character, Cat Bitters, does not subscribe to until she is suddenly trapped in a time loop with the only other people who seem to have any awareness as she does being one of her childhood bullies who goes to her college and his agoraphobic neighbor.
Recreation's world is meant to be dark but not hopeless ig.
2. if you gave an in depth description of your story to someone who was not all the way paying attention, what would their takeaway be?
Oh god. Um. Recreation is primarily about cycles of violence and unlearning the habits forced on you through child abuse, so I can't imagine them getting much from it other than "child abuse bad" if that's not a subject they're particularly invested in. For me though, I want to portray a group of characters who are victims of continued child abuse well into adulthood and don't follow the same three-act structure of "abused person is either very mean or a doormat > They make friends > They cut their family off and get better." I feel like that message will only really be able to carry to other people who can't see themselves in that kind of recovery narrative.
7. how would you describe the relationships between the characters in the story within eight words or less?
Oh this is a tough one. Hmmm
I have to fix my life with these schmucks?
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In November 1833, there was an intense meteor storm as the Leonids showered the Earth, with up to 100,000 per hour crossing the night sky, an event so spectacular that the world took note. Many believed it was coming to an end. For every one of the next 32 years, the Leonids were quiet and modest, but nothing near the 1833 outburst. Then, in 1866, it happened again.
Engraving By Adolf Vollmy.
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Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over N. America 188 yrs ago #onthisday on the night of Nov 12-13th, 1833, pictured in E. Weiß's Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888).⠀ ⠀ More meteors (and comets) in our post "Flowers of the Sky" — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/flowers-of-the-sky #otd
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On Monday night/Tuesday morning there is a chance something like this can happen...
An engraving of the 1833 Leonid meteor storm by Adolf Vollmy, published in “Bible Readings for the Home Circle.” (Seventh-day Adventist Church)
From this article https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/05/25/meteor-storm-tau-herculids-shower/
Of course if it happens I’ll watch like this
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Leonids Meteor Shower: Astronomy's Spectacular Display or Disappointment?
The Leonid meteor shower has long been renowned for its spectacular displays, etching its name in the annals of astronomy. While the shower is set to reach its peak on Saturday morning, expectations for this year’s event should be tempered. The Leonids have a rich history of meteor storms, with unforgettable shows observed in 1799, 1833, and 1966 when tens of thousands of meteors streaked across…
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#1833#2001#and 1966 when tens of thousands of meteors streaked across the sky every hour. More recent displays in 1999
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APOD November 17, 2023
Nightlights in Qeqertaq
Light pollution is usually not a problem in Qeqertaq. In western Greenland the remote coastal village boasted a population of 114 in 2020. Lights still shine in its dark skies though. During planet Earth's recent intense geomagnetic storm, on November 6 these beautiful curtains of aurora borealis fell over the arctic realm. On the eve of the coming weeks of polar night at 70 degrees north latitude, the inspiring display of northern lights is reflected in the waters of Disko Bay. In this view from the isolated settlement a lone iceberg is illuminated by shore lights as it drifts across the icy sea. Weekend Watch: The Leonid Meteor Shower.
©Dennis Lehtonen
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