Where to watch the peak of Perseids 2021, in person and online

The Perseid meteor shower will reach its peak of activity this week, becoming one of the most anticipated stargazing activities this year.

Perseus usually starts to move across the sky From around mid-July, But the best time to find them is during their peak period, when you can see dozens of them every hour.

This year, the best nights to watch the Perseid meteor shower will be August 11 and August 12. However, discovering meteors is more than just walking outside and looking up-although this may be useful to some people!

Perseus The best looking In the northern hemisphere, away from light pollution, according to NASAWatch the Sky Blog.

Meteor shower is obviously dimmed light pollution, The bright sky can turn a spectacle like Perseus into an ordinary night.

Bill Cook of NASA’s Meteorological Environment Office wrote in a blog that people often say that people can catch up to 100 Perseid meteor showers per hour, but this is usually a serious overestimation. In the United States, the actual number that most people see may be about 40 per hour before dawn during the peak period.

This is assuming that they are far away from light pollution and the countryside. People living in the suburbs are expected to see lower numbers between 8 and 10 people per hour.

Unfortunately, for people living in cities, this rate is expected to drop to 2 Perseus per hour due to light pollution, according to Cook.

Therefore, the Perseid meteor shower can be seen in the United States and the Northern Hemisphere this week-but leaving a densely populated area and looking up before dawn will be the best chance to see them.

For those who cannot do this or live in the southern hemisphere, the shower will also be broadcast live through the virtual telescope project in Italy.

Online observation can be viewed on the project’s WebTV portal or on YouTube, as shown below.

The live broadcast will begin at 12:00 AM UTC on August 12 (8 PM Eastern Time, August 11).

Perseid meteor shower occurs When the earth passed through the trail left by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, which was about 16 miles wide.

The comet left large pieces of space debris in its wake, and when our planet passed behind it, these debris burned brightly in the Earth’s atmosphere.