The night of “shooting stars” is behind us. The maximum of the Perseid swarm fell on the night from Saturday to Sunday. Up to 80 meteors could be seen in an hour. Reporters 24 sent us photos and recordings of their sightings.
The Perseids are one of the most regular meteor showers, with an orbit that intersects with Earth every year. This phenomenon can be observed from approximately mid-July to the second half of August. The maximum of the swarm this year fell on the night from Saturday to Sunday, from 12 to 13 August.
As Dr. Kamil Deresz from the Planetarium of the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw announced on Saturday, “there will be a chance to see 50-80 ‘shooting stars’ within an hour”. “The exact number is not easily predictable,” he added. You don’t need telescopes or binoculars to observe, just the naked eye. The best conditions are outside the cities, away from the lights.
Perseids in the eye of Reporters 24
We received photos and recordings of “shooting stars” on Kontakt 24.
“This year there was a lot to see. The weather was good, and the Perseids flickered all over the sky,” wrote an Internet user who followed the meteor shower in Nowogród (Podlaskie Voivodeship).
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Shooting stars, or meteors
Meteors, colloquially known as shooting stars, are luminous phenomena created during the passage through the atmosphere of rock particles from space, called meteoroids. The vast majority of them are destroyed in the atmosphere. Extremely bright meteors are called bolides, and if a rock that has flown into the atmosphere has managed to survive and reach the Earth’s surface, it is a meteorite.
The Perseids’ so-called radiant – the point from which they appear to emerge if we extended their celestial paths – is in the constellation of Perseus. However, these objects “scatter” all over the sky. During the activity of the swarm, the radiant moves between the constellations of Cassiopeia, Perseus and Giraffe, and during the maximum time it will be in the constellation of Perseus.
The Perseids were in the past called “Saint Lawrence’s tears”, which was related to the date of his alleged martyrdom on August 10.
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2023-08-13 06:41:54
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