Best time to look skyward is Saturday beginning around 9:15 p.m. to Sunday before the moon rises at 1:46 a.m.
If you’d like to make a wish upon a shooting star, your best chances of seeing one this year is on Saturday night, at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, with clear skies in the forecast.
“The Perseid meteor shower are debris from a dead comet, a cloud of small chunks of material. When the fragments enter Earth’s atmosphere they disintegrate, lighting up the sky,” said Ben Dorman, chair, Friends of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. “They are not like comets, which have lots of gas and leave a fiery tail as it streaks across the sky.”
With sunset at 8:30 p.m., the best time to view nature’s spectacle is anytime after it gets dark at around 9:15 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday and before the moon rises at 1:46 a.m. Sunday. Even after the moon rises, it is a waning crescent moon. “You don’t need a telescope or even binoculars to watch the show,” said Lauri Roche, who sits on the board of directors at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. “Just get a lawn chair that can recline and maybe a blanket on top of you.”
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