The sky is falling! Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight

[Baclava]

Every year, from around July 17 to August 24, our planet Earth crosses the orbital path of Comet Swift-Tuttle, the parent of the Perseid meteor shower. Debris from this comet litters the comet’s orbit, but we don’t really get into the thick of the comet rubble until after the first week of August. The bits and pieces from Comet Swift-Tuttle slam into the Earth’s upper atmosphere at some 210,000 kilometers (130,000 miles) per hour, lighting up the nighttime with fast-moving Perseid meteors.



http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-perseid-meteor-shower

[alphafemale]

1. And it is close to a New Moon.

So there is that.

[elleng]

2. Right, relatively little light from the moon interferes with meteor viewing.

[bvf]

3. Clear skies forecast for NE Ohio tonight! Woo-hoo!

[Baclava]

7. I got mosquitoes, lots of mosquitoes...and peeper frogs...it rained today, clear now

yes, I live in a swamp

[bvf]

8. Gotta hate mosquitos.

Hope you can work around them somehow.

Rained much earlier here too, something I'd forgotten and was only reminded of after plopping into a cushioned deck chair in preparation for an early preview. Ugh!

[Hortensis]

4. What a picture. Thanks for the eyes-up.

[K lib]

5. Nasa livestream starts at 10pm

http://www.ustream.tv/NASAHDTV

[niyad]

6. cloudy and rainy here (grateful, because we need the rain!)

[DirkGently]

9. Excellent. n/t

[Atman]

10. It was beautiful this morning!

Skies so clear and dark here in New England, I could easily see the Milky Way. I went out at about 3:30 and saw about 20 meteors in half an hour. Just to add to the experience, the coyotes serenaded me from across the lake. Quite an experience!

[Baclava]

12. Sounds wonderful! after the bugs drove me in the first time a high mist obscured things

so then I hit the couch, passed out and woke up at 7 am to bright blue skies

maybe I'll try again tonight

ha ha

[a kennedy]

11. Sky sucked here, cloudy......dang it. eom