IRELAND’s sky will be lit up with fireballs as a meteor shower peaks at a time without bright moonlight to obscure it. In what is being hailed as a very special week for sky watchers, the Perseid Meteor Shower will peak tonight and tomorrow night as dusk falls. "People should expect to see 20 times more meteors than a normal night, that's one or two per minute and many of them will be bright fireballs," said David Moore, editor of Astronomy Ireland magazine. The best meteor shower of the year, the Perseids will reach its peak activity on just these two nights this year. Meteors will be visible all night from dusk until dawn, with 20 times more shooting stars than during a normal night.

Source: Irish Independent August 11, 2021 13:07 UTC