On this data you spot a meteor shower above Zoetermeer

If you sit outside on a sultry summer evening when the sun has gone down, you can spot just falling stars in the Zoetermeer air. The meteor shower Perseids will come past the earth again on Wednesday 13 August.

Also in the two nights before and after 13 August there are falling stars, but a lot less than during the peak moment.

Spot star

Those who want to see the most falling stars must stay up for a long time or put the alarm clock for a long time. According to the website heaven Is the best time to spot the stars in the night of 12 to 13 August at around 4:45 am in the morning. Then the peak of the star rain and can be seen with the naked eye. You look at them best from a dark place, such as the Bentwoud.

Swift-Tuttle

These falling stars come from the so -called Perseid rain. That is a swarm of meteors that consists of left debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. Because the earth moves through the rubble cloud around the sun, we see this meteor shower every year around the same date.

213,840 kilometers per hour

The speeds of the meteors of the Perseids are quite high: about 59 kilometers per second, which is approximately 213,840 kilometers per hour. The Perseids are characterized by their brightness and speed. Sometimes you also see a light plume behind the falling star.

What is a falling star?

Falling stars are flashes of light that occasionally appear on the starry sky. However, the flashes have nothing to do with stars. They are caused by space debris, often no larger than a grain of sand. That rubble ends up in the earth’s atmosphere about 100 kilometers above our head. Due to the high speeds, the air at the front of such a grit particle is compressed, heated and brought to the glow. We see that as a flash.
Source: Hemel.waards.com