The year’s most intense shooting star is underway.
On the night of Tuesday, the sky offers its most intense show.
With up to 50 shooting stars per minute.
– I can almost guarantee that you will see one, says astronomer Dan Kiselman.
During a normal night, you can see between two and eight shooting stars per hour. But during the night to Tuesday, up to fifty shooting stars per minute can light up the starry sky.
– This particular swarm is usually at its strongest around the twelfth of August, but it is very possible to see it several evenings before. So you just have to start checking now, says astronomer Dan Kiselman.
“Gone With All Light”
The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most impressive of the year. The shooting stars have been going on since the end of July but reach their peak on the night between Monday and Tuesday.
Astronomer Dan Kiselman offers the best tips for viewing the light show, which he thinks is best done with an air mattress on the ground embedded in a blanket.
– You should look for a place where you can see as much of the sky as possible and stay away from all artificial light, street lights and houses. If it’s as dark as possible, then just look up, he says.
Dirt becomes shooting stars
The meteor shower is dust and pebbles from comet Swift-Tuttle. When the Earth passes the cosmic debris and reaches the atmosphere, a glow occurs – what we call shooting stars.
– You have to have a little patience. But if you can hold out for half an hour to an hour, I can almost guarantee that you will see a meteor, if not several, says Dan Kiselman.