Perseid meteor shower to light up Manitoba skies – Winnipeg | 24CA News
Stargazers could have the possibility to look at the evening sky gentle up with capturing stars Sunday night, because the Perseid meteor bathe wraps up its annual look.
Overnight, the earth will end passing by the mud path left in area by a comet to placed on the present, which occurs yearly round this time.
Scott Young, a planetarium astronomer on the Manitoba Museum, stated the occasion is the second-best meteor bathe to occur yearly.
“It is sort of the old faithful of meteor showers, it always puts on a pretty decent show,” he stated.
While peak time to view falling stars was Saturday morning simply earlier than daybreak, as that’s when the earth handed the thickest a part of the “dust bunny” of comet particles, Young stated the sky ought to be practically as vibrant Sunday night, too.
“We didn’t have great clear skies last night, but we should have good skies Sunday and Monday mornings and that’ll give us a pretty decent chance to at least catch the end of the shower.”
Depending on how far out of town and away from gentle air pollution one is, watchers can count on to see between 30 and 60 meteors per hour Sunday evening into daybreak.
Justin Anderson, an expert photographer, watched the bathe from Rocky Lake close to The Pas regardless of the cloudy situations.
“We just kept looking straight up and you’d see the odd meteor come through the clouds, right through the thin part of the clouds, and even some of them you could see the entire clouds flash almost like it’s lightning and you know then that’s actually a meteor probably lighting up the sky,” he stated.
The photographer stated whereas he didn’t seize any images of the meteor bathe, the expertise was nonetheless nicely value it.
“It’s a surreal feeling sitting underneath the stars looking up and, just, you feel so small in such a big world.”
Anderson stated he’ll be going out to seize images of the evening sky Sunday in the identical place.
– with information from Katherine Dornian
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