Good Omens 3:
The Night Sky in the South Downs
My heart is full of joy watching our beloved husbands Asa and Anthony in their garden, observing the night sky and the Eta Aquariid meteor shower. ✨🖤🤍✨
And just like Anthony, let me check some things and provide some facts.
The final shot shows a dark sky with the milky way:
Can we map that to a real moment in our Universe?
The open-source planetarium “stellarium” (https://stellarium-web.org/) shows a realistic sky for any place and time.
So, I checked May 13th, 2026, in Brighton, located at the coast in the South Downs, and found the sky at 4:20 am a quite good fit to the scene:
What about the meteor shower?
“The Eta Aquariids get their name because their radiant appears to lie in the constellation Aquarius,” – I put in the constellation and it’s art in the picture above – ”near one of the constellation's brightest stars, Eta Aquarii. ... The Eta Aquariids are best viewed in the pre-dawn hours away from the glow of city lights.”
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Aquariids)
How does that look like? Here is a photo – longer exposures and stacked – that shows many Aquariids meteors as bright, arrow-like darts of light. So, they seem to all come from a certain point.
(Source: "The Eta Aquariids meteor shower, which peaked in early May 2022, was captured in this stunning image by astrophotographer Petr Horálek.")
Let’s compare that to the two shooting stars we see in the scene.
The first one as a clip and a screenshot with the path:
The second one with the marked path:
They are definitely, definitely not coming from the direction of the constellation Aquarius.
So, it’s either some other debris. (Anthony’s answer)
Or maybe an angel and a demon passing by? (Asa’s answer)
Check out the Ineffable Detective Agency’s posts and a collection of Clues and metas from all over the fandom: embracing-the-ineffable
