Perseids Meteor Shower Maximally Alights ‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch

Summary: Perseids meteor shower radiant arising in maybe cloudy-rainy northeastern skies maximally alights ‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch Sunday-Monday, Aug. 11-12.

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The annual Perseids meteor shower reaches its peak in 2024 on the night between Sunday, Aug. 11, and Monday, Aug. 12: Imiloa Astronomy Center, via Facebook Aug. 8, 2024

Perseids meteor shower, its radiant arising in perhaps cloudy-rainy northeastern skies, maximally alights ‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch Sunday-Monday, Aug. 11-12 even as its peak appearance allies with less amenable weather forecasts.

Blazing shooting stars begin 11 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian (7:00 Chamorro, 10:00 Samoa, 1:00 next-day Alaska, 2:00 Pacific, 3:00 Mountain, 4:00 Central, 5:00 Eastern, 5:00 Atlantic) Time onward. Cloudy skies characterize ‘Imiloa, University of Hawaii-Hilo, Hawaii County, island, state (from Hawaiian ‘imi loa, “to seek far”; hilo, “thread”; ha wai ‘i, “breath life-force supreme”). Cloudy skies and cloudy, rainy skies perhaps respectively darken and dampen discerning Perseids meteor showers during the non-daylight hours that domicile perhaps 100 meteors per hour.

One constellation, one galaxy and, as navigational star families, two star lines as evening, night, earliest morning light sources, ease espying any overcast Perseids meteor shower.

Koolau (northeast, from Hawaiian Ko’olau, “north, windward”) horizon features Ia galaxy, Iwakelii constellation (from Hawaiian I’a, “fish”; ‘iwa ali’i, “frigatebird [Fregata minor] chief”), Perseids meteor shower.

Kaiwikuamoo and Manaiakalani (from Hawaiian ka iwi kua mo’o, “the bone back [the] lizard[‘s]”; māna ia ka lani, “hook fish the chief[’s]”) star lines glow nearby. Perseids (from Greek πέρθω, “to destroy, get by plundering, ravage, sack” via Greek Περσείδης [from Περσεύς -ῐ́δης, “Perseus son [of]”) meteor shower hovers around its namesake. The constellation Perseus (Hawaiianized Ānui) indicates where in the Ia (“Milky Way”) galaxy inhabited by our inner solar system the comet Swift-Tuttle itinerates every 133 years.

‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch jubilates dusty, icy particles that the Swift-Tuttle comet jettisoned in joining the inner solar system in late November, early December 1992.

‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch keepsakes Lewis Swift (Feb. 29, 1820-Jan. 5, 1913) and Horace Parnell Tuttle (March 17, 1837-Aug. 16, 1923) knowing subsequent-named Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle.

The first-listed and the second-listed astronomers respectively logged the lovely light source as a large periodic comet Wednesday, July 16, 1862, and Friday, July 19, 1862. Japanese comet-researching astronomer Tsuruhiko Kiuchi (born 1954) of Koumi, Nagano, Japan monitored Comet Swift-Tuttle as the latter moved into the inner solar system 32 years ago. Ignatius Kegler (May 11, 1680-March 30, 1746), German Jesuit missionary also named Ignaz Kögler and Lai of Qing China, numbered among Chinese noters of Comet Swift-Tuttle.

‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch observes the Perseids meteor shower occasioned by the 1992 occurrence outlined by British astronomer Brian Geoffrey Marsden (Aug. 5, 1937-Nov. 2010).

Kegler, as Chinese imperial court-pleasing mathematical astronomical tribunal president, Wednesday, July 3, 1737 perceived Comet Swift-Tuttle, peregrinating previously in 322 BCE, 69 BCE and AD 188.

The Perseid-cloud debris stream queues new dust, old particles quit by Comet Swift-Tuttle even as it respectively quested its orbit in 1865 and 1,000 years ago. Its Earth-area dimensions and meteor-shower, per-second velocities respectively realize about 0.1 astronomical units (AU) across, 0.8 AU along our Earth orbit and 58.8 kilometers (36.53663 miles). Perseids meteor-shower meteors sidle as shining trails, as shiny fireballs that survive along our Earthly atmosphere until perhaps 80 kilometers (49.7097 miles) above the Earth surface.

‘Imiloa August 2024 Sky Watch treasures the early mini-peak, the next-night maxi-peak of the Perseids meteor shower yearly trekking our terrestrial atmosphere since AD 36.

The annual Perseids meteor shower reaches peak date on the night between Sunday, Aug. 11, and Monday, Aug. 12; the moon's first quarter phase occurs Monday, Aug. 12, and a planetary conjunction of Mars (Hawaiian: Hōkū‘ula) and Jupiter (Kaʻāwela) takes place Wednesday, Aug. 14, according to 'Imiloa Astronomy Center's Sky Watch for August 2024: Imiloa Astronomy Center, via Facebook Aug. 8, 2024

Acknowledgment

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The annual Perseids meteor shower reaches its peak in 2024 on the night between Sunday, Aug. 11, and Monday, Aug. 12: Imiloa Astronomy Center, via Facebook Aug. 8, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=895531775927102&set=a.451186320361652; via Facebook Aug. 8, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=895531775927102&set=pb.100064108621874.-2207520000; via Facebook Aug. 8, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/imiloaastronomycenter/posts/895531775927102/

The annual Perseids meteor shower reaches peak date on the night between Sunday, Aug. 11, and Monday, Aug. 12; the moon's first quarter phase occurs Monday, Aug. 12, and a planetary conjunction of Mars (Hawaiian: Hōkū‘ula) and Jupiter (Kaʻāwela) takes place Wednesday, Aug. 14, according to 'Imiloa Astronomy Center's Sky Watch for August 2024: Imiloa Astronomy Center, via Facebook Aug. 8, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/imiloaastronomycenter/posts/895531775927102/

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