The annual Perseid Meteor Shower peaks tomorrow (Tuesday) night and early Wednesday morning. Due to the bright glow of the city lights, it’s unusual to see more than one or two meteors per hour anywhere in Chicago. Making things worse this year is the nearly full Moon (Supermoon!), keeping the skies bright during peak viewing… Read More Perseid Meteor Shower: Don’t Expect Fireworks
io9 has some beautiful timelapse videos of last week’s Perseid Meteor Shower. Take a few minutes and check them out! Here is one of them:
3. Not bad, really, considering I was only out in my back yard from 10:45 pm to 12:15 am, and the sky was partly cloudy and hazy for the first 45 minutes. And my back yard is by no means dark–though there is one spot where the street lamp from the alley and porch lights… Read More Last Night’s Meteor Count
This Sunday night (into early Monday morning) and the following Monday night (into early Tuesday morning) will be the best opportunities to see the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. What is a meteor shower? When the Earth in its orbit passes through dust left over from a comet, some of that dust enters the atmosphere and… Read More Skywatching: August 11-13 (Meteor Shower)
