{"id":20416,"date":"2023-08-14T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/updated-optimum-viewing-likely-for-perseid-meteor-shower-on-aug-12\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T11:45:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T15:45:14","slug":"updated-optimum-viewing-likely-for-perseid-meteor-shower-on-aug-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/updated-optimum-viewing-likely-for-perseid-meteor-shower-on-aug-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Optimum viewing likely for Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note<\/strong>: WRGB CBS News 6 reported Aug. 10 on the celestial event at the link below.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/weather\/weather-extra\/weathers-impact-on-viewing-this-weekends-peak-of-the-perseid-meteors-capital-region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/weather\/weather-extra\/weathers-impact-on-viewing-this-weekends-peak-of-the-perseid-meteors-capital-region<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Monda also talked with WGY Radio News Radio&#8217;s Joe Gallagher on Aug. 12 about the anticipated meteor shower and the Blue Moon. The podcast can be accessed at <a href=\"https:\/\/wgy.iheart.com\/featured\/joe-gallagher\/tab\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/wgy.iheart.com\/featured\/joe-gallagher\/tab\/podcasts\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Perseid meteor shower will reach upstate peak this weekend<br \/>\n<em>A near-moonless sky will help enhance viewing in 2023<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Daniel Roberts \/ Times Union \/ Aug. 9. 2023<\/p>\n<p>The summer\u2019s most popular meteor shower has begun, and 2023 will be an excellent year to watch the show.<\/p>\n<p>The Perseids became active on July 17 and last until Aug. 24. However, peak viewing for Northeast sky watchers \u2014 including the Capital Region and Hudson Valley \u2014 will be this weekend, according to Hudson Valley Community College Assistant Professor Richard Monda.<\/p>\n<p>Moonlight will not interfere with the annual \u201cshooting stars\u201d event for most of the night Saturday, Aug. 12, and Sunday, Aug. 13. Dark skies, away from light pollution, and clear weather are the ideal conditions for viewing. Meteorologists are expecting\u00a0partly cloudy weather\u00a0for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>More about the\u00a0Perseids\u00a0from Monda:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeteors are caused by icy particles that have been released from the surface of a comet, in particular for the Perseids, Comet Swift-Tuttle. This material falls behind in the comet\u2019s path and vaporizes as these fragments plow into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere at over 100,000 miles per hour. Friction with the atmosphere heats the surrounding air hot enough to glow and we see this momentary incandescent trail of light as a \u2018shooting star\u2019 in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeteor showers are named after the constellation from which the meteors seem to originate called the radiant point. For the August meteor shower, the radiant point is in the constellation of Perseus. This star pattern rises over the northeastern horizon during evening twilight and is fully above the horizon by 11 p.m.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monda recommends a reclining lawn chair, patience and a gaze about halfway up the sky. Monda has been a member of Hudson Valley Community College\u2019s biology, chemistry and physics department since 2001 and served as director of the Schenectady Museum Planetarium for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Perseids can produce more than 60 meteors every hour through the entire sky. With a fixed gaze in one area of the sky, you can expect to see on average a meteor streak across the sky every few minutes \u2014 that&#8217;s a lot of wishes.<\/p>\n<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-151908 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/PerseidMeteorShower_Aug12-2023_Credit-Sky-Telescope-Magazine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1368\" height=\"760\" \/><em>Source: Sky and Telescope Magazine<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:45:14 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Editor&#8217;s note: WRGB CBS News 6 reported Aug. 10 on the celestial event at the link below. https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/weather\/weather-extra\/weathers-impact-on-viewing-this-weekends-peak-of-the-perseid-meteors-capital-region Professor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}