The Perseid meteor shower will have to fight it out with a bright moon for visibility this year, but astronomers are still predicting a dazzling show tonight.
From any vantage point in the world, you might see more than 80 meteors an hour streak across the sky during the best viewing time, when the moon’s glare will be weakest late tonight and into the wee hours of tomorrow, local cloud and lighting conditions permitting.
The highest concentration of Perseid meteors hitting Earth’s atmosphere will occur tomorrow afternoon, when they’ll be largely invisible.
The Perseid sky show is “always the best annual meteor shower,” said Bill Cooke, the lead for NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office in Alabama.
Ann Minard.
