Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Over Perth; Residents Watch It on a Video From Somewhere Else
Cloud arrives with precision timing; 'it's like it knows', say stargazers.
The night sky, presumably, somewhere above the cloud over Perth. Photo: Coconino National Forest, “Night sky near Flagstaff with meteor”, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
PERTH — The Orionid meteor shower peaked this week, and Perth’s amateur astronomers gathered on Kinnoull Hill to watch it, only for a single, perfectly placed cloud to arrive at 10.59pm.
“It’s every year,” said a stargazer from Bridge of Earn. “Comets, eclipses, the Northern Lights. The cloud turns up like a bouncer. We’ve started calling it Kevin.”
Most attendees went home and watched a livestream from Arizona, which they described as “lovely, but it’s not the same as being cold.”
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