Saturday, August 13, 2011

Meteor Shower Tonight

Meteor Shower Tonight is enough to invite the attention of people around the world. Perseid meteor shower which will occur early in the day. As what is called the Meteor Shower? The meteors will appear to radiate from the southern part of the sky. The maximum hourly rate may reach 15-20 meteors in a dark sky . These medium-speed meteors ramble along fairly steadily throughout late July and early August. An hour or two before dawn usually presents the most favorable view of the Delta Aquarids. Try watching in the hours between midnight and dawn.

Two meteor showers the Perseids meteor shower is the Delta Aquarids predicted and will culminate on Saturday, August 13 will be seen from the entire hemisphere.

Delta Aquarids meteor shower peaks predicted would occur during peak Perseids meteor shower starts. The second meteor shower is expected to generate 15 to 30 shooting stars per hour.

The second meteor shower occurs because the Earth's atmosphere formed a cloud approaching from the granules are released comet particles. Each of the particles into the atmosphere at 150,000 miles per hour to burn and produce light.

Unfortunately, the scenery beautiful meteor shower will be a little disturbed by the full moon.

"Although a bit disturbed by the bright moon, people will still be able to see the rain Delta Aquarids," said Raminder Singh Samra, astronomers HR Macmillan Space Centre in Vancouver, Canada as quoted by National Geographic, Tuesday (07/26/2011).

The Perseid meteor shower is scheduled for August 12 or 13, in the morning hours after midnight – not that night. Unfortunately, the full moon will spoil 2011′s Perseid display, obscuring all but the brighter meteors, during the shower’s actual peak.

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