Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Meteor shower

Perseids

Best around 3:34 AM

Very LowExcellent
9:04 PM Dark enough
10:26 PM Moonrise
3:34 AM Best
4:27 AM Too light
Estimate
~41/hour
from a dark spot here
Radiant climbs to
54°
Under a perfect sky
100/hour
Moonlight
48% lost
Speed
59 km/s

Where they come from: Comet Swift-Tuttle (109P/Swift-Tuttle)

Dust from Comet Swift-Tuttle, which takes 133 years to go round the Sun and was last here in 1992. At 26 km across it is the largest object known to pass this close to Earth again and again.

The estimate is how many you might really see from a dark spot here, allowing for how high the shower climbs and for moonlight. "Under a perfect sky" is the best case. The bar also counts the forecast cloud at the best time, so a clouded-out night sits at the bottom, as does rain on the radar now.

The most dependable shower of the year, on warm summer nights in the north.

That morning

Sunrise

5:56 AM

5:56 AM

Clears the hills at 6:02 AM, 6 min after sunrise

5:28 AM Blue hour
5:56 AM Sunrise
6:31 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

7:34 PM

7:34 PM

Behind the hills at 7:15 PM, 19 min before sunset

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sun's own times - they will not change.

6:59 PM Golden hour
7:34 PM Sunset
8:02 PM Blue hour ends

Moon

Waning gibbous

67% lit

10:26 PM – 12:51 PM

ENE WNW
10:26 PM Moonrise
10:48 PM 4°
5:35 AM Highest, 73°
12:29 PM 4°
12:51 PM Moonset

Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.

Timetable

  • Morning blue hour 5:28 AM–5:56 AM
  • Sunrise 5:56 AM
  • Morning golden hour 5:56 AM–6:31 AM
  • Morning best color 6:05 AM
  • Moonset 11:51 AM
  • Evening golden hour 6:59 PM–7:34 PM
  • Evening best color 7:31 PM
  • Sunset 7:34 PM
  • Evening blue hour 7:34 PM–8:02 PM
  • Fully dark 9:10 PM–4:21 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 9:10 PM–10:30 PM
  • Moonrise 10:27 PM

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