The filming stars will inaugurate Earth Day From the end of Monday evening while Meteor Lyrid's shower reached its peak – and the Californians will have some of the best views in the country.
The annual Meteor shower event will be the most visible in April and bears the name of the Lyra constellation, the harp, located near the point of the sky where lyrides seem to come. The shower is one of the oldest ever recordedWith observations more than 2,700 years old.
The event summit will be Monday evening in the early hours of Tuesday, Earth Day. Thanks to a clear sky, almost all of California should have good viewing conditions, as well as certain regions of other Western states, parts of the Southwest and a Midwest pocket, including areas west and south of Chicago, according to AccuWeather.
In Los Angeles and other major cities where light pollution is omnipresent, the Stargazers will have trouble seeing the shower despite the ideal weather conditions due to the light pollution of houses, businesses, lampposts and cars.
“These events are notoriously invisible to the average person because we all drowning in artificial light, and there is therefore really no prayer so that most people can see it,” said Ed Krupp, director of Griffith Observatory.
To obtain a clearer view of the stars, Krupp suggests that those who in southern California should go to the mountains or the desert. Once viewers full of hope are “far from urban encroachment”, their chance of catching more filming stars is much better, he said.
Krupp, who has been the emblematic director of the Los Angeles Observatory since 1974, said it is important that people would temper their expectations of what they could see from the meteor shower.
“The very name suggests that there are meteors flowing over you,” he said. “You will probably not see more than one meteor per minute, and the lyrides are not so populated, so the average time between one, then the next one could be about three minutes. It is a process that requires patience and attention.”
The name “meteor shower” could also wrongly imply that what viewers see are meteors themselves, or the remaining comet particles and the bits of broken asteroids, instead that the path leaves them. “You see a shiny tunnel of hot air which could have 10 miles in diameter produced by this very small pebble which crosses the atmosphere and burns,” said Krupp.
However, Krupp said that seeing a single shooting star is a special experience, and an experience that often arouses cheers if you are in the company of other stars. He described the celestial lights as “charming”, saying that there is an “emotional and edifying” feeling that you get when you show a passage in the sky.
Krupp's best advice for optimal vision experience include getting dressed warm and getting as comfortable as possible, since dedicated viewers could look at the sky for at least a few hours, spending well after midnight. Filming stars can be easy to miss, he added, so staying focused and being patient is essential. He warns against the use of the mobile phone, both because of the light he emits and the distraction it causes.
With the peak of the shower to come during the first hours of the day of the earth, Krupp grouped to the alignment of the display of the galaxy and our observation of the party.
“The cosmos is a cold, random and carefree place, but it somehow manages to converge with our own emotional ties,” he said.
