Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
Meteorcast Turns Meteor-Shower Watching Into a Forecasting Problem
A North America–focused tool for finding nights and locations with clear, dark, transparent skies and promising meteor rates.
Why it surfacedMeteorcast combines cloud forecasts from multiple weather models with smoke, sky transparency, moonlight, and expected meteor-rate data. Its unusually specific promise—pick a shower and a night, then find the best place to watch—gives astronomy planning the feel of a proper forecast desk.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.