I almost forgot to remind everyone: Tonight is one of the nicer meteor showers of the year, and it'll happen when the Moon isn't muddling the darkness much. Best time to watch? After midnight, but any time after 10pm is good.
Click the image to see the Astronomy Magazine article.
This shower is special in that, some years, we get thousands of meteors per hour, and they hit so fast (40 MILES per SECOND) that they leave outstanding fireballs and smoke-trails.
Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, two-and-a-half miles across and passing us every 33 years, is responsible for this light show. Where to look? Toward the constellation Leo!
Chris
Click the image to see the Astronomy Magazine article.
This shower is special in that, some years, we get thousands of meteors per hour, and they hit so fast (40 MILES per SECOND) that they leave outstanding fireballs and smoke-trails.
Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, two-and-a-half miles across and passing us every 33 years, is responsible for this light show. Where to look? Toward the constellation Leo!
Chris
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- 10 Feb 2019, 20:41I think I saw one of the other layers of this somewhere else.
- 1 Feb 2019, 19:33heh
- 19 Dec 2018, 21:39Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy it.
- 19 Dec 2018, 21:37So much yes to all of this post. I'm going to check out the story when I get home.
- 6 May 2018, 22:00Thanks! I appreciate the comment. Now that I think of it, maybe I ought to do another tune-up...
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