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Two meteor showers will peak together over night on Thursday, July 30, into Friday, July 31– however skywatchers ought to anticipate a moonlit difficulty instead of a stunning screen.
Both the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids reach optimum activity simply one night after July’s complete Buck Moon, which turns complete on Wednesday, July 29. According to the American Meteor Societythe moon will still be 98% complete throughout the peaks of those meteor showers, suggesting intense moonlight will rinse a lot of the fainter “shooting stars.”
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