A meteorite shower is its climax. Here’s how to watch

How to watch the best meteorite shower in the year, perseids

By Clara Moskovic It was freed by Megan Bartls

One of the best annual bathtubs for Nazia, The Perseid Meteor Shower, and the climax now. The scene this year may be a little young man by a full -fledged gypsy moon that is almost declining – the stage that follows the full moon directly – in the sky. However, Perseids are often so bold and bright that the offer may still be worth verifying.

Meps should be more clear after midnight, local time until early morning hours before dawn from August 11 to August 13. It will be the best time to see them Between 2 am and 3 local time. If you look at a dark patch from the sky as far as possible, you should see fast lines of light from the sky in the Perseus constellation, near the star of Ita Persie.

Perseids is especially fast and bright, and in a good year, viewers can expect to discover between 50 and 100 nices in one hour. This year, with obstruction of moonlight, it can be less than half of the usual number of meteorites. However, 25 hours per hour are worth waking up early.

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As a reward, The flower and the buyer will converge In the eastern dawn sky. The Bright Planets will be close to each other between August 11 and August 13, when they appear as a double star. This scene should be bright enough to discover even from light designed cities.

The meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through a path of debris left by guilty or asteroid. While comets revolve in the sun, they get rid of dust and small particles, which are still standing along their orbital path. Rarely, asteroids can create similar paths when they are divided into fragments after collision with another space rock. When our planet crosses through such a path, these pieces of rocks and dust burn in Jonah in a wonderful scene. Perseids and other annual bathtub occurs at the same time every year because the Earth intersects with these debris paths in predictable spots along their orbit.

Perseids arises from the particles left by the comet 109p/swift-tuttle. The comet itself has long ended, after it moved to the extreme of the solar system now. The last 133 -year -old around the sun brought the last time across the cosmic land neighborhood in 1992. But its waste is still, which led to the Sky Wow monitoring lines every August.