The Perseids appear to radiate from spot below the W of Cassiopeia in the constellation Perseus, hence the shower’s name. This map shows the sky facing northeast around 12:30 a.m. local time August 13. Source: Stellarium
Maybe one will hit me in the head so I don’t have to vote.
Smoke from the fires is so thick right now you can barely see a dark red moon.
Wait now, have we forgotten something?
One of my favorite memories was sitting with my dad in the backyard watching the Perseids. We actually heard one “sizzle” in the atmosphere. I was just a kid and thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. They were coming at a pretty good clip for a while.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve seen far more meteors without publicized meteor showers than with. Most of them appeared within less than a minute outside, and that, about a couple of times or so per week.
Thank you for posting this.
Looking forward to this.
Best Perseids show I have seen to date was out in the Atlantic in 2007.