According to astronomers, the Perseid meteor shower is active every year from July 17 to August 24. However, ideal conditions will occur on Wednesday and Thursday.
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The popular meteor shower will be according to news of the Institute of Physics in Opava nad Evropou to peak on the night from Friday to Saturday, August 13, around 3 a.m. According to astronomers, however, the phase of the Moon, which will be full the day before the peak of the swarm, will be extremely disadvantageous. The full moon – as it will be angularly larger and brighter – will significantly disturb the spectacle.
When and where?
If you don’t want to miss out on a great show, you’ll have to stand up. The best time to look for them is from 3 a.m. until dawn, when the constellation Perseus rises high above the horizon and the Moon is still setting in the dark. Astronomers advise that to watch meteors you need to leave as far as possible from the big cities. It will be best if you go to the mountains with a perfect view.
You don’t even need to have binoculars with you – meteors fly all over the sky and are best viewed lying down. Relax on a lounger or in a warm sleeping bag and watch the sky. Photographers can then just leave the camera mounted on a tripod with a wide-angle and fully apertured lens and shoot sequentially, especially after midnight and before dawn, when the most meteors fly.
The Perseids got their name from the place in the sky from which the meteors seem to fly out, because it lies in the constellation Perseus. They can fly according to Institute of Astronomy Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic up to 61 kilometers per second, while at such a high speed smaller bodies cannot survive the passage through the atmosphere and evaporate. The swarm originated from the periodic comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, specifically from its dust.
They are already known from the middle of the 3rd century AD in connection with the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (~230-258). That is why they are often nicknamed “Tears of Saint Lawrence”. His holiday is on Wednesday.
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