Nightwatching on a special night

Have been watching the night tonight with husband and children. Pretty special to watch all these shooting stars and even odder to try to picture one because as usual the sheet of paper is white and the colour is black, so suddenly light becomes the negative...the white setting the dark ablaze with its negativity. Though it would be better to choose a dark paper and add some white, still there are different shades of black that would get lost this way