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Professor Gert watched as the attention of the group turned mostly in the direction she had motioned. Ms Durand was on the right track, Mr Anders perfectly capable of assisting his fellow upperclassman so she turned her attention more to the first year eagle. The woman coming up beside her with a friendly smile. “Good evening, Ms. Archard,” she returned the girl’s earlier greeting. “The easiest way to find Ursa Minor is find the brightest star to the north which is Polaris,” she instructed, echoing the Hufflepuff’s words. “Polaris will be the tail of the bear with the ‘Little Dipper’ of the rest of the constellation making up the body.”
Ah there were questions that she could and would answer gladly. “They are an annual event…usually happening at times between the 17th and 26th of December here in Scotland,” she answered Mr. Fox. Down in Portugal where her parents had retired to it shifted ever so slightly earlier. “My husband once teased our son that they were a present for his birthday seeing as the peak tends to be around the 24th/25th and his birthday is Christmas.” She couldn’t help chuckling at the memory of the instance.
“And the Ursid meteor shower is actually one of the smaller meteor showers,” the astronomy professor admitted. “But is also the meteor shower that lined up well with timing and weather for seeing it. The Leonids for example, is much larger and were at the end of November, however very much in the middle of the night and early morning and we had a bit of snowfall during its peak moments.” Celeste could only imagine the reaction she would have gotten from both staff and students if she had tried to trudge them out during that mess of things.
Well perhaps Mr. Anders wouldn’t have minded.
"Most are on the smaller side but there should be upwards of 10 or so meteors an hour that are of decent size to be seen by eye. Though the telescopes are set up in case you would like assistance in catch one."
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