Lunatics
I know by the time you read this it will be all over, but at 5AM I got my 11 year old out of bed to watch the lunar eclipse.
I did this with the whole family several years ago during the spectacular Leonid meteor storm. They loved it, but the sad thing is when they talked about it at school the next day nobody else had seen it, and I reckon this will be the case today as well.
The message, if there is one is you only get to see a lunar eclipse once or twice in your life, and something of the magnitude of the meteor storm only once, and at the age of 11 this is something he'll treasure for the rest of his life, I know I did when I say my first one at around 15. Of course I photographed it then!
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