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Surabaya – Meteor shower or meteor shower is a meteor phenomenon that falls and passes through the earth’s surface in large numbers. The following is the schedule for the Perseid Meteor Shower on August 12-13, 2023.

quoted Detik news from LAPAN BRIN, meteor showers can briefly occur because meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed. Meanwhile, meteor is a term used to refer to something (space objects) that falls from outer space.

A Meteor Shower Occurs

Meteor showers start with rocks in outer space that meet the earth. The rock is a fragment of a comet that has disintegrated as well as different rocks in outer space.

Then the rock is attracted by the greater gravitational force of the earth. So that the rock meets and rubs against the earth’s atmosphere.

Friction that occurs in the earth’s atmosphere with rocks also causes pressure on these rocks, and will cause heat. One type of layer of the earth’s atmosphere, namely the mesosphere layer.

The heat generated by these rocks results in the appearance of fire or burning in these rocks. This is what can cause light resembling a shooting star. Because of the meteors that fall and light up, it is called a meteor shower.

It is called rain because usually there are more than one meteors that come from burning, scorched, and falling comet fragments. So it is more appropriate to call it a meteor shower.

Perseid Meteor Shower

The Perseid Meteor Shower will occur on August 12-13 2023. This is the first astronomical meteor shower phenomenon that will occur in early August this year.

Meteor showers are events where meteors fall and pass through the earth in large quantities that look like rain falling. Meteor showers are an interesting phenomenon to watch.

On the official Southern Sky website, it is explained that the Perseid Meteor Shower starts from July 14 to September 1, 2023. The Perseid Meteor Shower comes from comet Swift-Tuttle dust which will reach its peak on August 13, 2023.

On the peak night of the Perseid Meteor Shower, an estimated 100 meteors will pass every hour and appear to come from the constellation Perseus. For observation locations that are free of light pollution, observers can witness at least 50-75 meteors every hour.

Peak Timetable for the Perseid Meteor Shower

The new Perseus constellation rises at midnight, which is around 00:16 WIB from the northeast. Meanwhile, the crescent moon which rises early in the morning, which is around 03:30 WIB, is not a disturbing factor in hunting the Perseid Meteor Shower.

The Perseid Meteor Shower is a major meteor shower. The peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower on August 13 2023 has an intensity in Indonesia of 36 to 61 meteors per hour.

Dangerous Meteor Shower Phenomenon?

During a meteor shower, meteors fall toward Earth and interact with Earth’s atmosphere. But usually these falling meteors don’t reach the Earth’s surface.

That’s because the meteor was already burning when it passed through the earth’s atmosphere. So that the meteor shower phenomenon is not dangerous.

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2023-08-11 04:31:25
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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Perseid meteor shower In 2023 it is predicted that the peak will occur late at night on August 12-13. Perseid is one of two meteor Rain the long-awaited annual, in addition to the Geminids in December. Earth’s orbit takes us through the densest part of the Perseid meteoroid stream each year around August 12, so this shooting star appears almost clockwork.

Observant observers under dark skies typically see more than 60 Perseids per hour between midnight and dawn. Typically, during night watches, the Perseids are able to produce a number of bright, blazing, and shattering meteors, which leave subtle strings that can last for seconds or more in their wake.

According to Margaret Campbell-Brown and Peter Brown in the “2023 Observer’s Handbook” of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Earth is expected to intersect the densest part of the Perseid stream at around 4 a.m. EDT on Sunday, August 13. “This situation doesn’t happen often,” the book excerpts.

The Perseid Stream has a dense core that gives a sharp peak shower that lasts only about eight or nine hours centered on this particular time of day. The North American region, especially in the east, is fortunate to be in an optimal position if it is in the mood to chase the peak views of this year’s meteor showers.

So, late at night on Saturday, August 12th, until the first light of dawn on the morning of Sunday, August 13th, the situation was very promising to see the beautiful Perseid show.

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On the other hand, the Moon with its bright light almost interrupted the view of last year’s meteor shower. But, that won’t happen this year. This time, what appeared was a waning crescent moon at 8 percent brightness. He was on his way to the new moon in three days time. So, 2023 is indeed a good year to witness the August Perseids.

Basic meteors

The source of the Perseid rain is comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun in a long ellipse of about 130 years. The comet sheds a bit of material each time it approaches the Sun again. This debris continues to move near the comet’s orbital path, creating rare “rivers of debris” in space.

These meteoroids from the Perseid stream range from grains of sand to gravel and have the consistency of cigar ash flakes. They crash into Earth’s atmosphere at 60 km per second, creating glowing trails of shocked ionized air as they vaporize.

On a peak night, the Perseids will appear to diverge from a patch of sky between the constellations Perseus and Cassiopeia near the famous Perseus Double Cluster. The divergence of the meteor from this point of radiance is the effect of perspective; meteoroids are actually moving in parallel through space. Meteors that appear near the beam will display short trails because we see them almost directly, while those far from the beam will appear wider, making them appear longer.

In the early hours of the morning, the glow is low in the north-northeast, so meteors strike the upper atmosphere at a low angle – and therefore we see relatively few meteors per square kilometer in the upper atmosphere. As the night deepens, and as the beam rises higher in the northeast, meteors come almost straight down, and we see more meteors.

How to watch

An excellent meteor shower like the Perseids will produce about one meteor per minute for any given observer under a dark country sky. Any light pollution or moonlight greatly reduces the above count.

Choose a lookout that is free of nearby glare, has a wide-open view of the sky, and preferably is as far away from city light pollution as possible.

Meteor viewing is best by lying down, gazing at the stars, and waiting. Usually, the direction to look is wherever your sky is darkest, usually straight up. For the Perseids, it is customary to see a point halfway between the radian (which will rise in the northeastern sky) and the point directly overhead (the zenith).

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2023-08-08 04:14:16
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