The annual Perseid Meteor Shower is already underway. It is expected to peak during the night of 2015 AUG 12-13. Its radiant is in the constellation Perseus. That is the direction toward which the meteor tails point, but the meteors are equally likely to appear anywhere in your sky. The Perseids are remnants of the periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle.
The Perseids are usually the finest shower of the year. At the peak up to sixty meteors per hour may be seen by some sharp eyed folks. For observers north of the tropics, the meteors appear virtually all night, although most prolifically during the hours before dawn. The thin waning crescent Moon at the time of the peak should not be a disturbance; it will rise not long before dawn.
Descriptions of the shower or perhaps even lucky photos would be welcome additions to this thread. My calendar for the major meteor showers during this decade including Moon illumination data can be found at http://ift.tt/1L2Ay6p
The Perseids are usually the finest shower of the year. At the peak up to sixty meteors per hour may be seen by some sharp eyed folks. For observers north of the tropics, the meteors appear virtually all night, although most prolifically during the hours before dawn. The thin waning crescent Moon at the time of the peak should not be a disturbance; it will rise not long before dawn.
Descriptions of the shower or perhaps even lucky photos would be welcome additions to this thread. My calendar for the major meteor showers during this decade including Moon illumination data can be found at http://ift.tt/1L2Ay6p
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1KVLYt1
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