O'Brien

Perseids Meteor Shower Party!

Monday, August 12, 2013

Almost every skywatcher knows about the Perseid meteor shower, because it offers up to 60 an hour under pleasant summer skies.  Join the O’Brien County Conservation Board at 9:00 P.M. on August 12, 2013 for a Perseids Meteor Shower Party!  Showtime usually begins as soon as the radiant (near the Double Cluster in Perseus) clears the horizon, an hour or so before midnight, and it climbs higher in the sky throughout the night. This should be a great year for the Perseids, because a fat crescent Moon should be setting just when the shower is revving up. The Perseids' parent comet is 109P/Swift-Tuttle, and the story of how 19th-century observers realized this shower is an annual event is interesting reading.

See you there!  The view is so much better on the prairie!

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