Ole C. Salomonsen: Celestial Lights and a meteor shower

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prepare for Mother Nature at her best.  Turn up your sound. 

More info about Salomonsen  and his photography work:
facebook.com/arcticlightphoto
arcticlightphoto.no

Celestial Lights from Ole C. Salomonsen on Vimeo.

Tonight and Sunday night the Lyrid Meteor Shower should dominate the sky, weather permitting.   There is a new moon so no full moon to contend with. 

From Spaceweather.com:

LYRID METEOR SHOWER: The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks this weekend on the night of April 21-22 when Earth passes through a stream of debris from ancient Comet Thatcher. Usually the shower is mild (10-20 meteors per hour) but unmapped filaments of dust in the comet’s tail sometimes trigger outbursts ten times stronger. This year’s peak coincides with a new Moon, which has prompted NASA to attempt an unusual 3D meteor photography experiment.

 

A good reason to not arm teachers….

MoonHowler

Washington Post:

ABINGDON, Va. — A Washington County teacher accused of firing a blank gun in a welding class is facing criminal charges.

Police tell media outlets that 60-year-old Manuael Ernest Dillow is charged with 12 felony counts of brandishing a weapon.

Washington County Sheriff Fred Newman says the incident occurred April 4 at the William N. Neff Center in Abingdon.

Dillow is accused of lining up a dozen students near a garage door and firing the blank gun multiple times in their direction.

No students were injured. A motive hasn’t been released.

Washington County Schools Superintendent Jim Sullivan says Dillow isn’t working now but he couldn’t comment further because it’s a personnel matter.

Dillow is an amateur and obviously an amateur who doesn’t have very good judgement.  What was he thinking?    Rare you think?  Something similar happened right here in PWC about 20 years ago.  I don’t think any charges were brought against the show off that pretended to shoot people with the track starter gun.  Unfortunately, not everyone is born with good judgement.  Let’s leave the guns out of the hands of teachers.   Plus it’s obviously just too tempting for some of them.  think of the toads some deal with.