I am so excited. The weather is clear and I have gotten reservations at Lockhart State Park, which is about as far from city lights as we can get in the time we have left today.

We will be spending tonight in lawn chairs, with our eyes, binoculars and camera. Eyes to the northeast at sundown for the Earth grazers. Then we will be back out after midnight to see the highlight of the Perseid shower.

Double bonus of Mars rising in the dawn sky.

It is a good day to be alive.

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