So, you were planning on going to bed early today?? I wouldn´t. Ok, it´s a yearly occurance, but you may forget next year or the year after...so why don´t you join the millions of people around the world that will be sat on their roofs, in dark fields or just in their back gardens to watch the famous Perseids meteor shower.
Its peak activity occurs between August 9-14 and you can see at times in excess of 70 meteors per hour on these dates. The next meteor shower is the Perseids on the night of August 12. The Moon is just a couple of days past new at the shower's peak, so there will be no moonlight to interfere with the faint meteors. The shower should reach its peak in the hours after midnight tonight - so fingers crossed for clear skies where ever you may be!
