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Night Skies To Sparkle As Meteor Showers Peak: Here’s Timing Night Skies To Sparkle As Meteor Showers Peak: Here’s Timing
Night Skies To Sparkle As Meteor Showers Peak: Here’s Timing Stargazers are in for a rare treat at month’s end, when two separate meteor showers each peak activity on the same night, promising a combined rate of up to 30 “shooting stars” an hour. According to the American Meteor Society, some of those streaks could blaze across the sky as brilliant fireballs, outshining everything but the Moon and brightest planets The dual peak — Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids — will unfold from the evening of Tuesday, July 29, through the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, July 30. The spectacle will give observers across the Northern Hemisphere a fron…

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by Joe Lombardi