Stargazers can view meteor shower after midnight Aug 12

By Thai PBS

 

 

Thai people across the country will be able to view Perseids meteor shower after midnight of Sunday August 12 until Monday morning if the sky is clear and free of clouds.

 

Mr Suparoerk Karuhanon, chief of astronomical service of the National Astronomical Research Institute, said that the meteor shower can be seen with naked eyes and, during the peak, there will be about 110 shooting stars per hour.

 

Perseids meteor shower is made of tiny space debris from comet Swift-Tuttle.  The Perseids are named after the constellation Perseus.  They are widely sought after by astronomers and stargazers because most years at its peak, one can see 60-100 meteors in an hour from dark place.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/stargazers-can-view-meteor-shower-after-midnight-aug-12/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-08-09

Midnight is the start of the day. So safe to say it would actually be the 13th.

Could the Ministry of Meteor Showers adjust the time to a more reasonable hour, say 8.00pm...…...I will be asleep long before midnight!

13 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

.I will be asleep long before midnight!

Me too...every time I stay up to watch one of these astronomical spectacles..its too cloudy,too much light pollution..the wrong time and or looking in the wrong direction..

better just to watch the "sky at night" on the beeb.