Daily News | The Perseids will star this weekend as the moon wanes. Here’s where to see them in the Philly region.
The Perseid meteor showers streak through the night sky around this time every August, but this year their peak is arriving at a fortuitous conjunction — on a weekend, and with barely a cuticle of moon to interfere with the show.“Perfect,” said Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute. You might even say the timing is something that happens “once in a blue moon,” and that’s particularly relevant in this case.
Realistically, he says, in a reasonably dark, open area with the Milky Way visible, one might see as many as 40 to 50 meteorsHere are some tips for star-gazing around Philly In developed areas, where one can make out the Big Dipper, the hourly number would be closer to eight to 10. In Center City, where the night sky is essentially a rumor, take what you can get and derive some pleasure from knowing that a remarkable cosmic event is unfolding way overhead.The Perseids derive their name from the fact that they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus, which is about 250 million light years away and has nothing to do with the spectacle.
Some of the fragments consist of rocky or metallic material, and on occasion that may burst into fireballs and perhaps make it to the Earth’s surface, in which case they are called meteorites., researchers estimate that statistically a space rock should hit a human being about once every nine years. With about eight billion people on the planet, those aren’t terrible odds.NASA cameras picked up a Perseid meteor back on July 26, and they will be around until the end of August.
The show typically gets going about 11 p.m., and gains in intensity toward daybreak. Cooke estimates that the absolute peak would be between 3:30 and 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
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