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Rabbit Brush on the side
I was standing just beside this massive rabbit brush bush, a plant I am particularly fond of, since it is present year-round in some fashion in Badlands National Park. Something was hissing from the middle of the bush, which turned out to be a beetle (no doubt of a prehistoric variety) who was disturbed by my flashlight.
For about 30 minutes I had the light of the moon to partially light the landscape and later passing traffic obliged.
During my stay, several meteors flashed overhead including one extremely bright one that broke into 4 pieces. As luck would have it, except for a few faint ones, they were all just outside my field of view. We are in the Perseid meteor shower period, which will peak August 12-13, although most of these did not appear to originate at the Perseus radiant point and were most likely sporadics, which are common to see in our area.
Rabbit Brush on the side
I was standing just beside this massive rabbit brush bush, a plant I am particularly fond of, since it is present year-round in some fashion in Badlands National Park. Something was hissing from the middle of the bush, which turned out to be a beetle (no doubt of a prehistoric variety) who was disturbed by my flashlight.
For about 30 minutes I had the light of the moon to partially light the landscape and later passing traffic obliged.
During my stay, several meteors flashed overhead including one extremely bright one that broke into 4 pieces. As luck would have it, except for a few faint ones, they were all just outside my field of view. We are in the Perseid meteor shower period, which will peak August 12-13, although most of these did not appear to originate at the Perseus radiant point and were most likely sporadics, which are common to see in our area.