I really enjoy the Perseids. Nice weather makes them easy to watch, and there are always enough meteors to go around. Even if you miss the shower, there's always next year, when the Perseids return to the Northern Hemisphere.
Since February 16 (the peak of Perseid activity, according to national meteor office for Northern Ireland) all the meteors have originated out of the constellation Perseus instead of the constellation Altair. While Perseus is a better fix to set your clock on, it's still not going to make a clock, because neither of the months forms a perfect shape.
So next year, you'll have the awesome Perseid meteor shower with a huge meteor shower of even more awesome magnitude.
The meteor speeds are so fast, in fact, they'll create a light fixture outage (flying through the lighthouse) for a couple of minutes. Twice each year, when the full moon (finally) rises, the Perseids are visible because the moonlight is too dim for beneficial responses to their speed. An astounding 1,500 trains of the shooting stars per hour cross the night sky.
The Perseids, a.k.a the Perseids meteor shower, was first observed in 1490. It's named after the Greek princess Persephone, now known as Persepolis, and the shepherd boy Telemachos. So, even though Telemachos might've eluded Persephone, the star Perseid remained.
Perseid meteor showers are so named because they happen when dust particles in the debris stream from a comet or asteroid hit the Earth at super-fast speeds. In the Perseids, the debris streams originate from 325 meteors per hour, and being a passing comet above the sun, it's more or less the same material that you get from comets.
Because of the day time temperatures in mid-20th century Northern Ireland's Western sky were chilly, the meteor radiance should range from a little bit dark to small bright (it's harder to see as each rocket does less work). And since you'll likely want to start looking at the sky for the Perseids after sunset on September 12, into the early "after" hours, you will be able to see them blazing in a dark sky even at sunrise.
Activity for the Perseids lasts roughly two months. The peak is from mid-July up to the start of October. The best time to count is after sunset on a clear night. A lot of the radiant is the Northern thing (hence Perseus is the scribe to his heart's tune), but clouds and very high
Since February 16 (the peak of Perseid activity, according to national meteor office for Northern Ireland) all the meteors have originated out of the constellation Perseus instead of the constellation Altair. While Perseus is a better fix to set your clock on, it's still not going to make a clock, because neither of the months forms a perfect shape.
So next year, you'll have the awesome Perseid meteor shower with a huge meteor shower of even more awesome magnitude.
The meteor speeds are so fast, in fact, they'll create a light fixture outage (flying through the lighthouse) for a couple of minutes. Twice each year, when the full moon (finally) rises, the Perseids are visible because the moonlight is too dim for beneficial responses to their speed. An astounding 1,500 trains of the shooting stars per hour cross the night sky.
The Perseids, a.k.a the Perseids meteor shower, was first observed in 1490. It's named after the Greek princess Persephone, now known as Persepolis, and the shepherd boy Telemachos. So, even though Telemachos might've eluded Persephone, the star Perseid remained.
Perseid meteor showers are so named because they happen when dust particles in the debris stream from a comet or asteroid hit the Earth at super-fast speeds. In the Perseids, the debris streams originate from 325 meteors per hour, and being a passing comet above the sun, it's more or less the same material that you get from comets.
Because of the day time temperatures in mid-20th century Northern Ireland's Western sky were chilly, the meteor radiance should range from a little bit dark to small bright (it's harder to see as each rocket does less work). And since you'll likely want to start looking at the sky for the Perseids after sunset on September 12, into the early "after" hours, you will be able to see them blazing in a dark sky even at sunrise.
Activity for the Perseids lasts roughly two months. The peak is from mid-July up to the start of October. The best time to count is after sunset on a clear night. A lot of the radiant is the Northern thing (hence Perseus is the scribe to his heart's tune), but clouds and very high
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