You may see the Perseid meteor bathe finest within the Northern Hemisphere, By way of NASA
“The Perseids is the very best annual meteor bathe for the informal stargazer,” mentioned Invoice Cooke, who leads NASA’s Meteoroid Setting Workplace on the company’s Marshall Area Flight Heart in Huntsville, Alabama. “Not solely is the bathe wealthy in vivid meteors and fireballs – No. 1 in reality – it additionally peaks in mid-August when the climate continues to be heat and cozy. This yr, the Perseid most will happen on the evening of Aug. 11 and pre-dawn hours of Aug. 12. You’ll begin seeing meteors from the bathe round 11 p.m. native time and the charges will improve till daybreak. When you miss the evening of the eleventh, additionally, you will be capable to see fairly a couple of on the evening of the twelfth between these instances.”
The easiest way to see the Perseids is to search out the darkest attainable sky and go to between midnight and daybreak on the morning of Aug. 12. Enable about 45 minutes on your eyes to regulate to the darkish. Lie in your again and look straight up. Keep away from cell telephones or tablets as a result of their vivid screens damage evening imaginative and prescient and take your eyes off the sky.
Perseid meteors journey on the blistering pace of 132,000 mph – or 500 instances sooner than the quickest automobile on the planet. At that pace, even a smidgen of mud makes a vivid streak of sunshine when it collides with Earth’s environment. Peak temperatures can exceed 3,000 levels Fahrenheit as they pace throughout the sky. The Perseids pose no hazard to individuals on the bottom as virtually all deplete 60 miles above our planet.
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