Perseid Showers Peak Viewing Tonight and Tomorrow

For Mexico:

Best hours to observe:
11:00pm - 04:30am (CDT)
Peak: Night of Aug 11 to morning of Aug 12
Best:While Perseids peaks on August 12th, we recommend observing starting August 1st, way before August 17th's full moon, for maximum visibility.

Peak: August 11, 12, 13
Shower rate: 15-30 per hour
Time Zone: UTC/GMT -5:00 hours

WDBarr wrote:For Mexico:  

Best hours to observe:
11:00pm - 04:30am (CDT)
Peak: Night of Aug 11 to morning of Aug 12
Best:While Perseids peaks on August 12th, we recommend observing starting August 1st, way before August 17th's full moon, for maximum visibility.

Peak: August 11, 12, 13
Shower rate:  15-30 per hour
Time Zone:  UTC/GMT -5:00 hours

I suspect you are far enough from the big city (GUAD) lights so you may have a good view of this show. I will try to see this but may be too close to Saint Louis to have clear views. Thanks for posting this. BB

I'm hoping for clear skies !

WDBarr wrote:For Mexico:  

Best hours to observe:
11:00pm - 04:30am (CDT)
Peak: Night of Aug 11 to morning of Aug 12
Best:While Perseids peaks on August 12th, we recommend observing starting August 1st, way before August 17th's full moon, for maximum visibility.

Peak: August 11, 12, 13
Shower rate:  15-30 per hour
Time Zone:  UTC/GMT -5:00 hours

Not going to see it in Lakeside tonight.....way too much rain!

WOW thanks for the memory - many years ago we lived in the Colorado High Country. I bundled up, went out on the deck, lay on a lawn chair and watched Perseids. Sang Rocky Mountain High to myself. Only thing missing was the grass. Nearly froze but what a great memory.

Got up this early this morning and was on my patio at 5:45am.
Saw 12 meteors / shooting stars between then and 6:15am.
It was great.