2007 Perseid Meteor Shower

Posted by Rhonda

The 2007 Perseid Meteor Shower promises to be a great light show with no moon to interfere. The shower peaks on Sunday, August 12th. Which means the best time for viewing will be early Sunday morning, Sunday night and early Monday morning.

The Perseid Meteor Shower averages about fifty or more meteors per hour. With no moon, I am thinking that number will go up.

I can only pray that it is not cloudy and rainy here in Houston as it has been for the past month. We have had about three dry days out of twenty.

Have fun and look to the skies.

Update – After the Shower (08/13/07)

It mainly depends on where you were as to whether the ’07 Perseid Meteor Shower was as spectacular as expected. I had overcast skies and too many city lights in Houston, TX. In Maryland, they had overcast skies as well, but in Yateley, Hampshire, England it was a different story.

I spoke to a co-worker who said the viewing conditions were perfect at his family ranch in Central Texas. It is said, some of the darkest skies in the lower 48 is in Central and West Texas.

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