Up to 75 'shooting stars' per hour may be visible as the annual Perseid meteor shower peaks on Sunday and Monday (Aug. 11 and ...

Here's how to plan your own trip to view the dark sky. ... When she peered through a telescope during Great Basin National Park's astronomy program, she saw her first shooting star.

If you want to see shooting stars, it's important to find a dark sky location, Krupp said. Dark sky sites have very low levels of light pollution and allow uninterrupted views of the night sky.

According to the American Meteor Society, the maximum number of "shooting stars" that the Perseids typically deliver is about 100 per hour, though that's under a perfectly dark sky with a 360 ...

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The images were captured from Dark Sky Alqueva Researve in Portugal. The meteors were captured by different cameras that I set up for two consecutive nights during the 2023 Geminid meteor shower.

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At its peak, you might see two shooting stars per minute. The shower is already underway, with a particularly bright meteor causing a boom that woke some Hoosiers up early in the morning of Dec. 10.

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro of Portugal captured a stunning display of Geminid meteors in these spectacular time-lapse photos.