Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society.

With me, science journalist, Izzy Clark, astrophysicist, Dr. Becky Smeatherst and the Society's deputy director, Dr. Robert Massey.

Now, everyone, can I just take a moment to be sad about the Persians, please?

Because I was in Plymouth, not in light-polluted London, far away from any light, and it was so cloudy.

I was so ready to finally get some good photos of it, and it just happened. I feel for you because I was I was in

Tenerife expecting better skies which we A didn't have because of Sahara and dust and B and so several

things happened. Firstly, I mean there's an awful forest fires and that's you know that absolutely put any of

this into perspective but they wanted to control the number of people.

Can you imagine this in the UK?

They controlled the number of people going to the centre of the island because they were worried about crowds going to watch the meteor shower.

Oh, wow.

Which I'm sort of impressed by, actually, that an astronomy event is so big that the island police force decides to take action like that.

So I only saw someone the nights before and after, but they were nice. I just missed the peak. No meteors for you. I missed it on the peak, Izzy too, because it was cloudy here. But I was at a wedding hilariously in Essex, so not that far from London, the weekend after. And it like late at night at like midnight.

And I saw one streak straight overhead.

It was, you know, blink and miss it.

And no one else who was with me saw it because no one else was looking up.

Because I want places looking up and not where I'm going.

But I'm not here person.

Oh, well, we'll all cherish that one viewing that you had and just be like yeah collectively one of us saw it but I was really pleased it it was a week after peak and still saw it so you know like yeah you want to

still try you never know what you might get to see good for you because I still kept looking and still

had nothing you've got to be a lot of pay you've got to be really patient or really lucky in the weeks after the show.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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