Perseid Meteors by Moonlight - http://www.skyandtelescope.com/communi...
Aug 1, 2009
from
Demetrios the Traveller,
Big Joe Silenced,
Matthew Horton,
rob,
RAPatton,
Ha3rvey (on hiatus),
Absentee,
and
LB ❤s FF, esp. YOU
liked this
"The little bits of interplanetary grit making up the Perseid meteoroid stream orbit the Sun with a period of about 130 years, like their object of origin, Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. The richest part of the stream is strung out near the comet itself, which last dipped through the inner solar system in 1992. So the shower's annual sky show has waned of late — gone are the great Perseid meteor displays of the early 1990s."
- Michael McKean
I saw them once as a child, on vacation. I never see anything cool in the sky because of light pollution.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed