"..."The best thing for star gazers to do is obviously to get away from any sources of light in big cities."
The Perseid meteor shower is an annual event, but the Royal Astronomical Society believes prospects for this year's showing are particularly good and could mean up to 60 shooting stars an hour in the UK.
Stargazers will need only their own eyes to enjoy the natural occurrence, which is a result of material falling from the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle, which last passed near the Earth in 1992.
"Comet Swift-Tuttle won't be visiting our neck of the woods again until the year 2125, but every year we get this beautiful reminder as the Earth ploughs through the debris it leaves in its orbit," said Professor Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen's University Belfast.
"Every meteor is a speck of comet dust vaporising as it enters our atmosphere at 36 miles per second. What a glorious way to go."...
...People may also get a glimpse of larger "fireballs", according to Brendan Owens, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
He said the Earth would pass through the comet's trail like a snowplough, with material of different sizes being trapped by the planet's gravity. The larger material may fall to earth as meteorites.
"If people are extremely lucky, we can see some fireballs, which are large chunks that ... don't completely burn up," he said.
"Sometimes it ends up with meteorites. There is a possibility of meteorite impact but it is very small."..."
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/12/clear-skies-predicted-perseid-meteorIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
hank you to the club members who done it for me,I was out there last night but it was not a good night,one night last week I was all setup and waiting in my bunker with good music in the back ground and I fell asleep but I love it out there .All are wecome to join me I have tea etc all readly ,but please no talk about councils.