Tuesday 11 August 2009

August 2009 is Perseid Meteor Shower Month


Gibbous Moon photograph at Google Images

The Earth is currently passing through Comet Swift-Tuttle's dust and debris tail.
From 11-13 August numerous meteors will be visible travelling across the sky from 3am onwards if you live north of Brisbane and above that latitude elsewhere in Australia.

However, we will all be able to see the 55% gibbous Moon which will be in the sky over the same period.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

we we won't see any of these meteors from Sydney? What a bummer!