The spectacular Perseid meteor shower should reach its peak on Tuesday night.

[elleng]

with as many as 100 shooting stars streaking across the sky every hour.

What is the best way to see the Perseid meteor shower?

But the annual display, caused by the Earth passing through rocky debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle, could be hard to see this year, with cloud and the glare of another celestial event, the supermoon, conspiring to obscure the meteors.

The Perseids began to light up the skies in mid-July and should last until 24 August. But the most intense showers are due late on Tuesday evening and into the early hours of Wednesday morning before sunrise.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2014/aug/11/best-way-to-see-perseid-meteor-shower

[In_The_Wind]

1. Big sigh. It's raining.

[elleng]

2. Kind of overcast here too, EDITED

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as it has been since SuperMoon, but ever hopeful, MAYBE it will clear!

edit: Waddya think, any hope for me here tonight???

[SheilaT]

3. I live where I consistently have clear skies

but not sure I want to stay up that late.

[In_The_Wind]

4. Wanna adopt me?

[SheilaT]

5. Do you clean house?

We might be able to work something out.

The alternative of course, would be for you to simply move to Santa Fe, where I currently live. I generally have fabulous clear skies at night and I just love it.

[In_The_Wind]

6. I have to clean! I live with 30 (I think) birds.

I hate snow after the first few storms in the Hudson Valley of New York.

[SheilaT]

10. Any African Gray parrots?

[WhiteTara]

11. I'm setting my alarm

this may be a show too great to miss!

[shenmue]

7. Zing! Zoom!

Are we sure this is not just another case of space people jetting around drunk?

[longship]

8. Meh! Full moon.

The best way to view a meteor shower is a dark sky, I.E. with the moon below the horizon, or a New Moon.

The media is making a big deal about the confluence of a super moon and the Perseids, ignorantly unaware that the former utterly fucks up the latter. Where in the Sam Hell are the science reporters? That's right. They laid them all off. And the reportage here is so scientifically ignorant that one can only beat ones skull against something hard.

[derby378]

9. Clear skies here in North Texas, and a new Mixcloud project on a related topic

You've heard of Perseid meteors, but what about the Perseus Cluster? Geek out, then tune in:

http://www.mixcloud.com/derby378/forever-burning-night/