One of the most famous and popular meteor showers of the year is coming。Unlike last year, with very unfavorable conditions due to full moon close to the maximum, this year has near-perfect conditions for observing the Perseids.The peak of the activity is expected in the night from 12 to 13 of August (Sunday to Monday), with ZHRs (hourly rates in theoretical perfect conditions) around 100. Depending on your local conditions, this should cater for realistic rates of one meteor per one or two minutes. The nights just before and after the maximum are still worthwhile for observations with rather high rates.
Perseids are fast moving meteors and they appear to originate from a point between Perseus and Cassiopeia. The Perseids are of course a nice opportunity to just go out to a dark spot and see some "shooting stars", but if you would like to do some structured visual observations, we welcome your observations, which will get processed directly into a live ZHR profile.
Submitted by Luc Bastiaens on Tue, 2007-07-31 17:47.
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