Obviously, for optimal viewing, you'll want to be in the darkest place possible. This may prove difficult for us city-dwellers, but NASA has a neat little widget on its website that lets you input your coordinates, conditions and viewing times, offering a rough estimate of the number of meteors you can expect to see. Below is the chart for greater Pittsburgh:
Note that the peak time for viewing will be at 2:28 local time, and we can expect to see around 2.5 meteors per hour then. Not spectacular by any stretch, but still more meteors than one can expect to see over the course of an entire year.
I've heard a few things about this meteor shower and I wish I had the willpower to stay up and watch keep a lookout for a meteor or two (or 2.5).
ReplyDeleteCool graphic, though.
Any word on the next meteor shower?
Helpful post. Too bad in actuality it didn't work out that way. You know I can't help but think of this episode of Hey Arnold where he watches Haley's (sp?) Comet on the roof with his crazy grandpa and makes the whole city turn the lights out so they can see it. God I am such a loser--I seriously haven't seen that in years but I still remember the plot.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, ditto Jay--I know these things are rare, but is there another time soon we could expect some astral action?