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[/caption]If you want to see meteor showers, your best bet is to get as far away from any light source and especially as far away as possible from any town or city.
Take a chair or recliner and prepare to watch the skies for at least 1/2 hour. You do not need any telescope or anything like that in order to see meteor showers. Just look at the sky with relaxed eyes and you should soon see plenty of metor showers.
The Perseids begin to rise in early August and meteor showers have their peak activity between August 12 and August 13, 2010. There are about 50 meteors per hour to be expected. The comet of origin of the Perseids meteor is 109P/Swift-Tuttle and they radiate from the constellation Perseus.
The best time to view them is in the early evening when the crescent moon sets and just before dawn. The darker the sky, the better visible the meteors. The Perseid meteors is considered the best visible in 2010 and should be the best performing meteor. The meteors that the Perseids produce are among the best visible and most bright meteor showers.
The speed of the meteors is about 61 kilometers per second or 38 miles per second. You can find more information on meteor showers on the NASA web Site.
Update:
Meteor Shower August 2010 Live Video/Audio Feed
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