Perseid Meteor Shower Time to Watch: Check Out When and Where to View the Meteor Shower
For those who live near light pollution, the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower Tuesday night may not be exciting.
But NASA has teamed up with Slooh, an online observatory partner which allows streaming views from telescopes around the world, to allow city dwellers a chance to see the meteor shower.
Experts say the best time to view the meteor shower will be late Tuesday, after 7 p.m., into early Wednesday, according to Yahoo.
Slooh will be streaming the view from the Canary Islands tonight.
"This is the best known and most beloved meteor shower. Though bright moonlight will affect the 2014 Perseids display, we will nonetheless be able to dramatically observe them all night long, and their superfast speeds as they collide with Earth's atmosphere at 37 miles per second. Our accompanying narration will explore various little known aspects of these visitors from space, which are debris from Comet Swift Tuttle," Bob Berman, at Slooh, said in a statement.
The moonlight is especially bright because of the recent supermoon phases, but viewers will still be able to see at least 30-40 meteors per hour at about 3 a.m., NASA officials told Yahoo.
Slooh said in the statement that their coverage will include attempts to track shooting stars via their ionization "sound" giving viewers another unique way to experience the meteor shower.
Slooh has been around since 2003 and began with the Internet connection to the Canary Islands, since then it has grown to include locations in the U.S., Australia, Chile, Japan and others, according to their website.
But for those who are not in need of a computer to view the shower, being in the Northern Hemisphere offers the best chance of viewing.
NASA officials told CBS that viewing conditions get worse South of the equator with parts of southern Australia and South America completely blind to the shower.
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