Perseid

The Perseid meteor shower is here!

Perseid meteors, caused by debris left behind by the Comet Swift-Tuttle, began streaking across the skies in late July and will peak on August 12.

The Perseid meteor shower is often considered to be one of the best meteor showers of the year due to its high rates and pleasant late-summer temperatures.

The Perseid meteor shower is often considered to be one of the best meteor showers of the year due to its high rates and pleasant late-summer temperatures. This year’s shower peak, however, has the added bonus of dark skies courtesy of an early-setting crescent Moon. Combine these ideal observing conditions and high rates (an average of 60 meteors per hour at the peak) with the fact that the best nights for viewing – August 11 to 12 and August 12 to 13 – occur on a weekend and you have a recipe for successfully viewing some celestial fireworks!

The Perseid meteor shower is often considered to be one of the best meteor showers of the year.

Thus the Family of Pelops got the poſſeſſion of two Kingdoms, and became ſuperior in Wealth and Power to the Perſeids their Rivals.

[…] the Perseids, who reigned at Mycenæ […]

[…] Heracles, who traces his lineage back to the two great families in the Argolid, the Perseids and the Pelopids […]

The deſcendants and partiſans of the great Hercules, the moſt illuſtrious hero of the Perſeid line, were diveſted of their poſſeſſions, and driven into baniſhment.

[…] the Perseid line […]

We here reach the commencement of the Perseid dynasty of Mykênæ.

The Perseid Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon of Tiryns, was Hercules's mother, Zeus his father […].

It was not confined to the Male Fury, but belonged also to Medea, the Perseid Hecate or Fury of Colchis, […]

Then to the shrine of Perseid Hecate,² / Concealed by forest shades, she boldly went, / Her passions on the wane. But when she there / Saw Aeson's son, her embers flamed anew!