This Sundays supermoon will be 12 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than Januarys full moon. Thats not all though -- August skies are going to be action-packed. The supermoon will be followed by the Persied meteor shower, which will peak from August 10 to 12. The residual brightness of the full moon may interfere with the ability of skywatchers to catch all the shooting stars, but because the moon currently crests in the afternoon it should set in plenty of time for night owls to get a glimpse the meteor shower amidst the proper amount of darkness. The best time to see the showers will be at around 2 a.m., because the moon will be incredibly bright in the earlier evening, the smaller showers will not be a match. The Persied showers offer some of the best shooting stars of the year. At their peak, they could feature as many as 100 meteors per hour -- each of them a chunk of space debris from the tail of the Swift-Tuttle comet smashing into the atmosphere as it passes by Earth.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:26:13 +0000
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