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ASTRONOMY IRELAND IS asking stargazers to keep their eyes peeled tonight as the best meteor shower of the year reaches its peak.
According to SpaceDex the peak time to view the meteors in Ireland is between 11pm tonight and 4am tomorrow morning, while the best visibility will be in the early hours of tomorrow and Monday morning, due to less moonlight.
It’s expected that the meteors (cloud permitting) should be visible at a rate of between 15 and 30 per hour.
The Perseid meteors will appear to originate from the constellation Perseus in the north-eastern sky, but can be seen anywhere in the sky. No telescopes or binoculars are needed to see the Perseids as they are bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
Astronomy Ireland is asking anyone with an interest in the skies to document what they see, counting how many meteors they see every fifteen minutes. You can then email your report, like the one below, to meteor@astronomy.ie:
Galway stargazer Niall Madden was out for a look last night:
Here’s footage of a perseid meteor shower at its peak as seen from County Down in 2010:
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These floods have been going on for the last 3 days and the journal are the first to do a story on it, nothing in any of the other news sites
They’re trying to find a way to link it to Putin first.
Sad
You would think that when you can’t see the massive propaganda against Russia at the moment.
Do you actually believe that they are trying to link Rainfall to Putin?
No it was a joke ffs…
Albeit a bad one at that.
Joe, congratulations for being the first to link this to Putin.
Thank you Journal for sharing story on this. I contacted you last night about it so is very appreciated. I hope you keep covering it as situation is very bad and people need help. Badly. We are trying to organise something from Ireland but we have very little knowledge how to do it except privately sending small amounts of money which is not really help in moment as they need water, food, nappies etc for next few nights. Looks like all help or most of it is coming from few countries ( Russia among first) and ex Yugoslavian from other countries. Croatia and Slovenia send help as well even there is big risk in Croatia for same happening to them. Any further media cover keep donation to this people so thank you very much for it.
They need to get going on climate change mitigation soon as the situation is not going to get any better – it is not as if this was not predicted with a warming climate in the region. Big floods in Germany around the Danube last year when I was there too. Warmer air holds more moisture and leads to heavier rain and more storms – one of the basics of climate and meteorology. Every country needs to start mitigation work against the worst effects of climate change, because it is here now and it is not going away.
Geo engineering at its evil best
Proof?
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