The Perseid’s Meteordusche – One of the best shows in the sky – will reach the climax next week. But the highlight for fire balls that shoot through the night sky this year coincides with a bright moon, which is expected to negatively influence visibility for eagerly viewers.
The Perseids Peak in 2025 is August 12th to 13th, especially in the early Wednesday for those in North America. At that time, according to the American Meteor Society, the moon will be 84% full.
“In 2025, the decreasing Gibbous moon will significantly impair this shower at the time of maximum activity” says. “Such conditions reduce the activity by at least 75 percent, since only the lighter meteors are visible.”
In contrast to 50 Perseids per hour, between 10 and 20 Perseids per hour per hour can see the spectators this year under darker conditions says.
“The strength of every Perseid display varies from year to year, mainly due to moon conditions.” writes Robert Lunsford with the American Meteor Society. “If a bright moon is above the horizon during the night of maximum activity, the display is reduced. Most Perseid meteors are weak and light moonlight will make it difficult to see them.”
The Perseids meteor shower has been ongoing for several weeks. It started in mid -July and will continue until August 23.
A planetarium program coordinator in a museum in St. Paul, Minnesota, advises people to walk past a week after the summit if the moon is not so bright.
The Perseid’s “are an incredible meteor shower,” said Thaddeus Lacoursiere from the Bell Museum of Associated Press.
NASA says that the best time to see the Persodes early in the morning before the sun comes in the northern hemisphere. However, meteors can sometimes be seen at 10 p.m.
If you look at the personal, you seem to come from the constellation Perseus, which is why this meteor shower has its name. But the meteors do not come from the constellation; They are space debris that were left by A comet. The fact that debris interacts with the earth’s atmosphere, dissolves and leads to colorful lines in the sky, according to NASA and the American Meteor Society.
“The parts of space told with our atmosphere to create the Perseids come from the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle”, which last visited the inner solar system in 1992, says NASA.
The next Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, the earth will continue next Tuesday by Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, writes Lunsford.
“In order to successfully look at the persodes, it is recommended that they observe from a safe rural area that is as dark as possible,” he says. “The more stars you can see, the more meteors will be visible.”
