Perseid meteor shower peeks Thursday night


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The Perseid meteor shower that will peak Thursday night and Friday morning is expected to be unusually bright and visible in the night sky this year because moonlight won't be hampering the celestial show. The best time to watch will be from midnight to dawn, and the best place to watch will be any dark-sky spot you can find.

Lake Tahoe, and Joshua Tree National Park east of Palm Springs, are said to be good viewing spots.

Check out the Fluxtimator, a Java application on NASA's website that claims to allow you to calculate the expected shower rate for a given date and a location. Using that application, I found that the the most meteors per hour are expected to occur at 5:08 a.m. Friday. If you're in downtown Los Angeles, it indicated that you can expect to see fewer than seven meteors per hour. if you're on a mountaintop somewhere near L.A., you could see as many as 96 per hour.

Online chat: Got questions? NASA astronomer Bill Cooke at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will conduct an hourlong online chat starting at noon Thursday. Sign up for the chat here.

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Really? I have not been looking

Not great in the UK for dark skies, too many street lights and clouds

Belgium is worse, trust me :p

Map of Visible Stars, some institute made it. The complete Flemish part of Belgium (where I live) is already too bright to be able to see the Milky Way :(

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