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See full version: Planets Visible in the Night Sky in Bridgetown, Barbados
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Beta The Interactive Night Sky Map simulates the sky above Bridgetown on a date of your choice. Use it to locate a planet, the Moon, or the Sun and track their movements across the sky. The map also shows the phases of the Moon, and all solar and lunar eclipses. Need some help?
Mercury is close to the Sun and can only be seen shortly after sunset. Try finding a good, unobstructed view of the horizon. here
1. Realize that this shower rises gradually to its peak. Few meteor showers are a one-night event. You could start tonight! [links]
Meteor showers are very predictable events, so astronomers know exactly when you have the best chance of seeing them.
But medium-size strikes can be dramatic spectacles—and in some cases, dangerous. The Chelyabinsk meteor that struck southern Russia in February 2013 blew out windows and caused indirect injuries to almost 1,500 people. [links]
3. Watch in the hours before dawn Most meteor showers are best after midnight, and the Ursids are no exception. After midnight, the part of Earth you’re standing on has turned into the meteor stream, which means the radiant point for the shower will be above your horizon. [links]
Meteors come from leftover comet particles and bits from broken asteroids. When comets come around the sun, the dust they emit gradually spreads into a dusty trail around their orbits. Every year the Earth passes through these debris trails, which allows the bits to collide with our atmosphere, where they disintegrate to create fiery and colorful streaks in the sky.
Larger strikes are less common—a one-meter meteoroid strikes the Earth once each year on average and would reach the ground as smaller debris, while a 100-meter meteoroid strikes the Earth approximately every 10,000 years, according to a Tufts University fact sheet. Meteoroids over 1 kilometer hitting Earth are catastrophic events that occur every 1 million years on average. [links]
See what stars, constellations, and cool celestial objects are visible in the sky this month. You can print the chart for use outdoors.
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As you're enjoying Jupiter and Saturn during August, watch as the increasingly full Moon slides beneath the pair of planets over several days from the 19th to the 22nd. Plus, the full moon on August 22nd is what's known as a "seasonal blue moon," as it's the third full moon out of four this season, where normally each season there are only three. This happens every two-and-a-half to three years, or as they say, "once in a blue moon."
Although Perseids can be seen from mid-July through late August, the most likely time to see any is a couple of days on either side of the peak. This year the peak falls on the night of August 11th, and into the pre-dawn hours of August 12th. (Think of that as "prime time" for the Perseids.) Under really dark skies, you could see almost one per minute near the time of maximum activity.
This year's peak night for the Perseids benefits from a Moon that sets early in the evening, so it won't interfere with the fainter meteors. But before it sets that evening, be sure to check out that gorgeous crescent Moon in the west after sunset with the brilliant planet Venus. more
Meteor showers appear to radiate from a point called the radiant, though they can streak across the sky anywhere above you. For the Perseids, this point is in the constellation Perseus. more
August brings the best-known meteor shower of the year, the Perseids. This annual meteor shower happens each year as Earth crosses the debris trail of comet Swift-Tuttle. Most of these meteors are grains of dust up to the size of a pea, and they create fabulous "shooting stars" as they burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
Opposition is a time when Earth and a planet farther from the Sun, such as Jupiter, are aligned on the same side of the solar system. This is when that planet is directly opposite the Sun in our skies. [links]