Get ready for a big meteor shower tonight. If you want to see the Perseids 2010 annual meteor shower, it will start August 13th within the evening. The moon can be disappeared during the Perseids meteor shower 2010. The northeast sky is where you should look from midnight to dawn to find 75 meteors each hour. You don’t even have to get a telescope.
Perseids 2010 has a meteor watch
Perseids 2010 is a huge end to a wonderful summer full of stargazing and can be happening tonight. According to NASA, a “tight conjunction” of Venus, Saturn, Mars and also the moon could be shown right at sundown by any who watches. At 10 p.m., these planets will all fall together below the horizon marking the official start of Perseids 2010. The Perseus constellation is where the meteors will be falling from at 10 p.m. when the shower begins. As the Perseus constellation rises and also the night deepens, meteor rates will increase. For sheer numbers, the best time to meteor watch is during the darkest hours before dawn on Friday morning, when at least one meteor a minute might be seen.
Tips for meteor watching
To get the most enjoyment from the big meteor shower tonight, Alan Boyle at MSNBC offers some meteor watching tips. Discover a place far from light pollution and out of the city where the sky is going to be the darkest for you. Find some place that is at a higher elevation. You’ll need something to keep you warm and to lie on when being on your car up against windshields. Wear something to keep you warm. It will help to get some mood music to play. Give your eyes plenty of time to adjust and look straight up. Midnight could be when the Perseids 2010 can really be seen well. The meteor show’s peak could be happening right before the sun rises.
Suggestions for photographing the meteors
The big meteor shower tonight is a fantastic photo op. Get some tips from Pop Photo on how to get a good photo. City lights could really hurt the picture with long-exposures and wide-open apertures. Use a cable release, and prevent the images from getting blurred by putting a finger on the shutter button. Try to avoid getting light streaks within the picture by putting something in the foreground. Find the right ISO and exposure time with a wide, fast lens to help take the picture. Take pictures as fast as you can.
Why Perseids 2010 could be better than average
The Perseids 2010 occur when the Earth passes through the dust cloud of the Swift-Tuttle comet. The Christian Science Monitor reports that the Swift-Tuttle comet swings around the sun once each 135 years, spewing dust and gas as it nears the sun and heats up. The comet’s last pass was in 1992. Every time the comet passes Earth, the dust stream gets thicker than the time before. The patch of Swift-Tuttle’s dust stream Earth is going through this year is much denser than usual.
Additional reading
NASA
science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/05aug_perseids/” href=”http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/05aug_perseids/
MSNBC
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/11/4869749-see-and-hear-the-meteor-show
Pop Photo
popphoto.com/features/how/2010/08/how-photographing-perseid-meteor-shower
Christian Science Monitor
csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0812/Meteor-shower-August-2010-how-you-can-get-the-best-view
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