The shooting stars will continue Earth Day From Monday night, when Lyrid’s meteor rain reaches its maximum point, and the Californians will have some of the best views in the country.
The annual meteor shower event will be more visible in April and bears the name of the Lyra constellation, the harp, located near the point in the sky where the Lyrids originate. The shower is one of the Older registeredwith observations that date more than 2,700 years.
The peak of the event will be Monday night until the early hours of Tuesday, Earth Day. Thanks to the clear skies, almost all of California has good visualization conditions, together with some regions of other western states, parts of the southwest and a pocket of the west medium, including the areas to the west and south of Chicago, according to Battery.
In Los Angeles and other important cities where Light pollution It is widespread, the Stargazers will have some difficulties in seeing the shower despite the ideal climatic conditions due to the light pollution of households, businesses, street lamps and cars.
“These events are notoriously invisible to the person of greed that we all drown of artificial light, so there really is no prayer so that most people can see this at all,” said Ed Krupp, director of O Griffith Observatory.
To obtain a clearer vision of the stars, Krupp suggests that those in southern California should go to the mountains or the desert. Once hopeful spectators are “far from urban invasion,” their opportunity to catch more fleeting stars is much better, Hey said.
Krupp, who serves as director of the Los Angeles Observatory since 1974, said it is important that people modify their expectations of what they could see in the meteor rain.
“The same name suggests that there are meteors that spill you,” he said. “It is not likely that you see more than one meteorite per minute, and the Lyrids are not so populated, so the fury time between one and then the following could be three mines more or less. It is a process that demands patience and attention.”
The name “meteor shower” could also imply incorrectly that what the viewers are seeing are meteors themselves, or the parts and fragments of comet leftover of broken asteroids, instead of the path that left them. “You are seeing a bright hot air tunnel that could have 10 miles in diameter produced by this small very small pebble that passes through the atmosphere and burns,” Krupp said.
Even so, Krupp said that seeing only a fleeting star is a special experience, and one that will often cause applause if you are in the company of other Stargazers. He described the celestial lights as “charming”, saying that there is a feeling of “emotional and edifying” that you get when you witness a pass through the sky.
The best Krupp tips for an optimal visualization experience include dressing hot and becoming as comfortable as possible, since dedicated viewers could be looking at the sky for at least a few hours, passing far beyond midnight. Tiring stars can be easy to lose, he added, so staying focused and being patient is key. It warns against the use of the cell phone, both for the light it emits and the distraction it causes.
With the shower peak arriving the first hours of Earth Day, Krupp showed the alignment of the exhibition of the galaxy and our holiday observance.
“The cosmos is a cold, random and indifferent place, but somehow manages to converge with our own emotional ties,” he said.
