Summer Stargazing Treat | Community-watch of the Perseid Meteor Shower
About this Event
The Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its peak on the night of 12-13 August in the UK and Europe, giving skywatchers a potentially impressive summer treat. The meteors are best viewed from the northern hemisphere, and in ideal conditions with no clouds observers could see up to 50 an hour.
Meteors are the result of small particles entering the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed, typically around 60 km per second. The pieces of debris heat up due to friction with the air, and are usually destroyed in under a second at altitudes above 80 km. The superheated air around the meteor glows briefly, and is visible from the ground as a streak of light known as a ‘shooting star’.
This year the peak should be from the evening of 12 August through to the morning of 13 August. On this night the Moon will be a thin crescent setting early in the evening, so moonlight will not interfere, and there is a real advantage to being in a dark sky site away from the lights of towns and cities.
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