by It is finally time to see one of the best meteor showers of the year: the brilliant display that is known as Perseid.
The Perseid meteor shower, which is known to produce dozens of Heller meteors, which leave long strips behind, will be at the highest value of paths on Tuesday at 4 p.m.
Around 40 to 50 visible metore have been produced in the past few years, but Sky-Gazer will probably not see that many this year, said Bill Cooke, the lead for the Meteoroid environmental office of NASA. This is due to the fact that the Perseid shower occurs shortly after the full moon in August.
The moon will be in a decreasing clever phase and with lighting of about 85%, which means that the light of the moon makes a meteor spot. According to experts, you can see about 10 to 20 meteors per hour.
When you pay attention to meteors
While the peak of the personal people will take place long before sunset in the United States, there are two windows of the time between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning when Stargazers aim to be outside to have the best chance of protecting a meteor.
“There will be a one -hour gap between the twilight and the moon ride on the evening of August 12 before the moon rises” if you can look for Perseid’s activity, said Robert Lunsford, coordinator for fireball reports for the American Meteor Society.
These meteors shoot in all directions of the constellation Perseus, which is located in the northern sky. However, Lunsford found that a large part of the meteor activity due to Perseus, which at that time appears low at that time, was blocked.
“All meteors that you see at the time are called Earth Grazer because they can only graze the upper atmosphere,” he said. While most Perseid meters are visible for mere milliseconds, the few grassers they might see are “very long and two or three seconds,” he added.
In the last hours before the day of the day on Wednesday, the other window in which Lunsford recommends seeing the shower. “There will be a bright moon in the southern sky, but if you turn your gaze to the north and somehow look towards the constellation Perseus, you can still see the lighter meteors.”
Look for planets
The Peak of the Persids occurs immediately after the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, and the two planets will still be close together and lights up lightly. The best view takes place in the eastern sky before sunrise.
“These are the two brightest planets,” said Lunsford. “This (conjunction) happens approximately once a year, but it is still spectacular if you really bring the two brightest planets close together.”
Saturn will also take part in the heavenly exhibition of the night in the late evening hours on Tuesday. According to Earthsky, it will appear near the moon and climb before midnight.
Upcoming meteor showers
Here are the main data of other meteor showers, which, according to the American Meteor Society and Earthsky, were expected in 2025.
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Southern Tauriden: 3rd to 4th November
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North Town: 8th to 9th November
Upcoming full moon
Pay attention to four more moons this year, with super moon taking place in October, November and December. Your data are:
Moon and solar eclipses in 2025
Two Eclipse events take place when summer comes to an end.
A total lunar eclipse will be visible on September 7th and 8th in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, parts East South America, Alaskas and Antarctic.
A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon goes directly into the shadow of the earth, while the sun, the earth and the moon stand up. This means that the moon appears darker or dimmed.
When the moon sits in the darkest part of the shadow of the earth, the sun’s rays look out behind the earth and the light burns a reddish shade to the moon, according to the London Natural History Museum. Some people call the result a “blood moon”.
Two weeks later, on September 21, in parts of Australia, the Atlantic, the Pacific and Antarctica, a partially solar eclipse becomes visible.
Sun eclipses occur when the moon moves between the sun and earth. In a partial solar eclipse, the moon does not completely block the sun. It creates a crescent moon – as if the moon has a bite of the sun.
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