The Perseids Meteor Shower Brings Bright Fireballs to the Skies, Starting This Week

Skygazers have a lot to wait for the next month. One Dueling Meteor Shower In July, the heavens will do grace and they will join with the most popular meteor shower of the year. Perseids are known for bright shooting balls and abundant meteors. The show starts on Thursday, July 17 and will last until August 23.

The reason for the treatment of the treatment of treatment is doubly. First, it happens in summer, so it is less anxious to walk outside and watching Other great meteor showers Winterery is like a rectangular in January.

Another reason is one of the most active meteor showers of the year. During the summit, the meteor shower is known in the average 100 meteors. American Meteor Society. These are just a higher chance for firefighters, which are meteors, which are not included in your stars, but also meteors inside the orbit. Per NasaFireballs tend to last longer than standard firing stars and various colors can be in different colors.

Perseids 109p / Swift-Tuttle Comet comes to the courtesy. The orbit of the earth around the Sun brings through a fast tailway tail every year. The comet itself takes 133 years to make the sun orbit. His last period of the past – the point near the sun was in 1992. Will not be back until 2125. Until then, he puts a great tail and rubbish to feed the annual meteor shows.

How to track the treatments Meteor shower

The best time to look at the persidors, during the summit in the late 12th and 13 months. However, since the shower is officially lasting more than a month, you have a chance to see a star that is more than any evening so that you are far away from light pollution.

Thus, if you plan to follow this year’s teachers during the peaks, you will want to get out of town and suburbs as much as possible. According to Bill CookeNASA’s meteooroid environment, people in the city, the people outside the city can see one or two meteors from the meteor shower, which are pocket change in the number of people in the city.

No matter what, you will want to focus your attention to the point where bright or meteors are created after you come to where you want to watch the meteors. Like all meteors, teachers are named after the constellation. In this case, this Perseus.

By stellarium Free Sky mapPerseus, 12th and 13th the evening of August 12, will rise from the northeastern horizon. Will remain after Sunrise, to rise to the eastern sky. So, in a word, point to yourself by the east and you have to be good. You can help binoculars, but we recommend to the telescopes, because they will restrict the appearance of the sky, which can prevent your meteor-vision.

American Meteor Society Also notes Moon can give viewers a difficulty. Perseids’ summit occurs only three days after the full month of August, so the moon will still be full. Thus, it is expected to reduce the number of meteors visible, depending on the number of meek, visible meteors, which works, depending on how things go.