08/09/2025
🚨 Sky Watch Alert! 🚨
The Perseid Meteor Shower is back! 🌠
WHO: Northern Hemisphere stargazers
WHAT: One of the best meteor showers of the year - The Perseids! 💫
WHERE: Anywhere with dark skies (avoid city lights and clouds!) 🌌
WHEN: Aug 11–12, 2025 (best after midnight) 🕛
WHY: Earth is passing through debris from Comet Swift–Tuttle 🪐
⚠️ BUT… This year’s show comes with a major spoiler: the Moon. 🌕 On peak night, it’ll be 89% full (Waning Gibbous) and right near the constellation Perseus, flooding the sky with light. Faint meteors? Mostly gone. Bright Perseid fireballs? Still possible…. and worth watching for.
💡 Tip: Face away from the moon, watch after 11 p.m., and enjoy any meteors that blaze through. 2025 = low quantity, but maybe high quality. 🌌
📅 Mark your calendar for August 2026: New Moon + Perseids = epic skies. 🌑✨
For more details, visit:
LiveScience https://www.livescience.com/space/meteoroids/perseid-meteor-shower-2025-how-to-see-shooting-stars-despite-the-full-moon
Space.com https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/will-the-bright-moon-ruin-the-perseid-meteor-shower-2025-or-is-it-still-worth-watching
One of the most prolific meteor showers of the year will peak overnight on Aug. 12-13, but a bright moon will reduce its visual impact.
