(meteorobs) Perseid max 2006 Florida

[Richard Kramer]

At 04:38 AM 8/17/2006, Norman W. McLeod III wrote:
>  I have to wonder how younger people can get interested in 
> astronomy these days with the night sky just about gone.  The 
> entire basis of my interest stemmed from being able to see things 
> at night.We had a good sky over Miami until 1961, just long enough 
> to get a solid interest going.

In 1967, it was normal to see the milky way throughout the summer 
from my Boston street, barely 5 miles from downtown. Now, kids 
growing up anywhere in eastern Massachusetts literally do not know 
what the milky way is.

Richard