It was one year ago today …

Today marks one year since the start of this blog. Some fun facts about the past year:

• the Transient Sky was viewed over 174,000 times
• 254 posts were made
• over 1143 comments were written
• the first post on 2008 Sept 10 was about the unexpected outburst of the September Perseids
• the busiest day was 2008 October 7 when 3107 people visited to read about the impact of 2008 TC3 in Sudan
• the most viewed post is “In the Sky This Month – February 2009” with 10,934 views (the interest that month was focused on Comet Lulin which was at its brightest that month)

Plans for year 2 include more comet images (and more comet info in general) and the expansion of the Tucson-based meteor system to include more all-sky fireball detection and the determination of meteor orbits.

I’d especially like to thank Bob Lunsford for contributing his nightly meteor observations. A hearty thanks to everyone who has been reading the blog and to those of you who have been leaving comments. I might not have continued blogging if it weren’t for the kind notes of encouragement and knowing that this information is being read by so many people. Thanks again…