It’s a peak week for meteors!! Don’t forget to turn off porch lights by 10 pm. to help out your neighbors!
Check when the moon is rising this week and try to get outside after 9pm and before moonrise.
Find an open spot without street lights, and put the night sky glare from Wake and Durham Counties to your back. Wait. This is the part most folks forget. Don’t look at headlights, flashlights or cell phone screens. Just wait.
In 5 minutes your eyes will start adjusting to the darkness. By 30 minutes you should be seeing LOTS of meteors streaking across the sky.
They can be green red blue orange!! Some will come from the North East …
but they really do come from every which – a – way!
More info:
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-perseid-meteor-shower
Moonrise for central North Carolina – from sunrisesunset.com/classic/
August 10 Sunset: 8:10pm Moonrise: none
August 11 Moonrise: 12:06am Last Quarter
August 12 Moonrise: 12:37am
August 13 Moonrise: 1:12am
August 14 Moonrise: 1:53am
August 15 Moonrise: 2:41am
August 16 Moonrise: 3:37am
August 17 Moonrise: 4:40am
August 18 Moonrise: 5:49am New Moon: 10:43pm
Have fun!! Cindy
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 03:25:17 -0400
From: Cindy Raxter
Subject: It’s Perseids week!