Astronomy: 80 to 200 Bright Stars per Hour… Everything You Need to Know About the Perseids Starting Thursday Night
This is one of the most anticipated astronomical events of summer: The Perseids will light up the sky on Thursday evening for three consecutive nights.
If you have never seen a meteor in your life, now is the time. From Thursday evening, it’s a real festival that will light up the nights with 80-200 stars per hour.
If they last until August 24, the Perseids will not be as intense as they were during the nights of August 11, 12 and 13. Also called Saint Laurent’s Tears, these showers of shooting stars will only be perfectly noticeable in a sky that is as polluted as possible with general lighting.
Feel free to steer clear of urban centers to truly enjoy the most enchanting landscape, even if this year it’s the moon that risks playing spoiler sports. The giant moon and its extraordinary radiance Really claiming themselves at the same time as the highlight of the Perseids. Presentation may be a little confused.
The best time to observe this unusual phenomenon is generally around dawn, between 4 am and 5 am.
Note that if the Perseids take their name from the constellation Perseus, the falling stars are not focused around the latter and can be seen everywhere in the sky.
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