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“Watching summertime meteor showers is the most civilized kind of star gazing you can do. You don’t need a telescope. The key is comfort. You settle back in a nice lounge chair and point yourself in the direction of the radiant where the meteor shower is coming from,” advises amateur astronomer Ken Ritvo.
Ritvo’s suggestions come in handy with one of the most spectacular meteor showers this year, the Perseid, expected on the nights of August 11,12 and 13.
The Perseid derives its name from the way the meteors appear to fan out from the constellation Perseus in the northeastern part of the sky. The meteors are actually debris strewn around the orbit of Comet SwiftTuttle which intersects Earth’s orbit every August and is due to return sometime before 1984. The debris lights up the sky with meteor trails as it enters the earth’s atmosphere.
In other areas of the world, the Perseid meteors are called *the “Tears of saint Laurence” because nedieval churchmen observed a sky full of shooting stars at the same time each ,'ear as this feast day was :elebrated.
The meteors should arrive at a rate of 50 per hour
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