Perseids Meteor Shower and the occultation of Jupiter 2012

In the summer sky show will take place again. The phenomenon of the meteor shower will adorn the night sky throughout the Indonesian archipelago. The early morning of August 12, 2012 Perseids Meteor shower will greet us at the beginning of August this or hose 2 weeks after the Southern Delta Aquarids meteor shower (SDA) takes place. But the Perseids meteor shower this year will be very special when it happens where the "eclipse" the planet Jupiter.

Perseids meteor shower this time the activity began on July 17, 2012 until August 24, 2012 and peaked in the early hours of Sunday morning August 12, 2012. The intensity of meteor showers resulting from the remains of ruins of the tail of comet Swift-Tuttle is very high. Meteor will be passing is expected to reach 100 meteors per hour with an average speed of 59 Km / sec.

Its high intensity Perseids meteor shower is very unfortunate indeed if you do not see it. Perseids will have a radiant direction of the constellation Perseus which rises from the eastern horizon sky at 01.00WIB. Unfortunately it appears when the constellation Perseus, the moon also rises at the same time so it can be predicted light of the moon will interfere with observations of meteor showers on the meteors of magnitude lower air.