Perseid Meteor Shower Tonight One of the years most dazzling meteor showers peaks overnight tonight, and you can watch the shooting star display online if clouds or bright city lights ruin your view of the sky. The 2014 Perseid meteor shower should be at its most spectacular late Tuesday into early Wednesday (Aug. 12 to 13), experts say. You can see the Perseids live online courtesy of the Slooh Community Observatory and NASA. The two free webcasts of the meteor shower beginning at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) on Sloohs website, slooh. You can also watch the Perseid meteor shower webcasts live on Space, courtesy of Slooh and NASA. Moonlight may wash out a few meteors Tuesday night, since Earths natural satellite will be just a few days removed from its supermoon full phase. But the Perseids should still put on a good show, with 30 to 40 meteors per hour expected around 3 a.m. local time Wednesday morning, NASA officials said. [Top 10 Perseid Meteor Shower Facts] Sloohs show will feature views of the night sky from a telescope in the Canary Islands, off the west coast of Africa. This is the best-known and most beloved meteor shower. Though bright moonlight will affect the 2014 Perseids display, we will nonetheless be able to dramatically observe them all night long, and their superfast speeds as they collide with Earths atmosphere at 37 miles per second, Sloohs Bob Berman said in a statement. Our accompanying narration will explore various little-known aspects of these visitors from space, which are debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, Berman added. NASA, meanwhile, will stream live shots from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, beginning at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 GMT). At 11 p.m. EDT (0300 GMT), NASAs Meteoroid Environment Office chief Bill Cooke will host a live online chat with colleagues Danielle Moser and Rhiannon Blaauw. You can follow the NASA webcast and online chat here: nasa.gov/watchtheskies/perseids-2014.html#.U-oCUfldWSo.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:38:53 +0000
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