Sunday, August 15, 2010

South California Celebrates Perseid Meteor Shower

Mt. Pinos in Los Padres National Forest witnessed, it is Thursday night, 2010's Perseid meteor shower, with more than 200 of Southern California's residents tracing the shooting stars all over the sky. The peak of this annual meteor shower was witnessed on Thursday night and has extended till the dawn of the next day.

Rebecca Johnson, an Editor in StarDate magazine, and the McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas, a report Published Saying That lucky Viewers got the chance to see fire balls is That Night. Awaiting They are rare, They are still easy to detect Among mutch bright meteors.

At That night, one group of Viewers spent this night lying down in a parking lot watching the dark sky Brightening up by Their Telescopes. The Telescopes were long ago Prepared for That Specific phenomenon. Other Viewers ™ for just with Their Lawns chair or blankets to see the annual celebration sky, watching around 50 meteors Thurs 1960 Illuminati the sky every hour.

Alan MacRobert, Journalist for Sky & Telescope magazine, wrote an email to ABC, "Greater Amounts of Light Pollution in the sky will cut down on the numbers - vain the bright ones [meteors] will still shine through."

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