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July 15, 2024 at 5:59 PM. A (Sofoklo) One of the best meteor showers of the year is underway, offering a chance to see shooting stars in the summer night sky. The annual Perseid meteor shower ...
Appearing annually between late July and mid-August, the Perseid meteor shower is expected to reach its peak on the evening of Sunday, Aug. 11, and before dawn on Monday, Aug. 12, according to NASA.
Over 50 meteors per hour may be visible during the Perseids’ peak August 12 and 13. The annual meteor shower is one of the biggest and brightest of the year.
The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle that are usually visible from mid-July to late-August.The meteors are called the Perseids because they appear from the general direction of the constellation Perseus and in more modern times have a radiant bordering on Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis.
[8] During the Southern Taurid meteor shower in 2013, fireball sightings were spotted over southern California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. [13] A 2021 study by Ignacio Ferrín and Vincenzo Orofino catalogued 88 probable members of the swarm and showed that many such as the 2212 Hephaistos group and the 169P/NEAT group exhibit cometary activity.
CAMS (the Cameras for All-Sky Meteor Surveillance project) is a NASA-sponsored international project that tracks and triangulates meteors during night-time video surveillance in order to map and monitor meteor showers. Data processing is housed at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute [1] in California, USA.
The Best Time to Watch the Perseids. You'll see the most meteors after midnight and before dawn on August 11–12. The meteor shower is active from July 14 to September 1 this year, but the peak ...
A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower in 2021 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Under excellent conditions, you may see 50 or more meteors an hour. Note, meteor ...