Note StarGazers! This is the time for one of the best meteor showers of the year – Perseids

Note StarGazers! This is the time for one of the best meteor showers of the year – Perseids

You know that this is the time of a purse when it is turning curved in summer.

The shower is considered one if not the best of the year, mainly due to the summer in the northern hemisphere, when the sky becomes clear (until smoke is not) and the weather is not warm.

This is contrary to the geminid meteor shower, which can be seen by how many meteors can be seen per hour, but in December, but it is in December when it is cloudy and very cold.

You can catch a meteor on any night, especially if you are outside a city, away from mild pollution. But meteor rain is special. Instead of periodic streak against the wiring sky, you can potentially see a dozen or more an hour.

When to see

We receive this amazing and generally reliable shower thanks to the debris released from comet 109P/Swift-Tatal each year, with a 133-year-old grade and was final in the internal solar system in 1992.

Every year, the earth passes through the debris of the comet, which in turn enters the Earth’s atmosphere, burning as beautiful lines in the sky.

Try this interactive map that shows how the earth passes through a meteor shower:

Most of the meteor rains get their name from the constellation, from which the meteor is born, which is called radiant. In this case, Radiant Nakshatra is Persian, which starts increasing in north -east around 9 pm local time.

But it is important to note that you do not need to see the constellation directly. Just look.

This year, the shower runs from 17 July to 23 August, but it keeps the peak on the night of August 12-13. On this night, in ideal conditions-dark, cloudy, smoke-free, clear sky-shower can produce about 100 meteors per hour.

However, you are unlikely to see that this year many of them or half of them due to a major problem: Moon.

Below but not out

The Moon will be about 84 percent enlightened, which means that it will wash all but brightest meteors.

“This year, the moon just kills them,” said the Canada Research Chair at Peter Brown, Planetary Small Bodies and Professor at Physics & Astronomy, Western University, Professor in London, Onts.

The second issue is smoke from the wildfire.

Brown said, “It is like a cloud. It is going to reduce the amount of light.” “So, you know, if you have full moon and still have a lot of smoke or high cloud, you are probably looking a handful of meteor in just an hour.”

But the big thing about purseids is that they produce very bright meteors and even some fire shells. Also, you can achieve some really good “Earth grazing” – meteors that skim our environment. They live longer than a specific meteor in the sky.

“On 12th, and even better, on 13th, there will be one or two hours after sunset, where the moon will not be there either (or) it will be less and the radiant is low, but the activity is quite high and you will see the grazing,” Brown said.

Look Missouri grazing an earth on the sky:

“You are not going to see 50 in an hour, but you can see a handful, and they can last long. They are super luxurious. If ever looks like a meteor fireworks, it’s a grazing purse meteor.”

So, there is a message, do not give up. Hold a blanket, lie down – with the moon behind you – and look up. Perseids are rarely disappointed.

Brown said, “Yes, the moon will be up. It will be bright, but will be a lot of meteor and bright, you will still see a very good show.”

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