Look up Thunder Bay, here’s how you can see the meteor shower tonight

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Look up Thunder Bay, here’s how you can see the meteor shower tonight – CBC

by ahnationtalk on August 12, 202479 Views

Aug 12, 2024

Tickets are sold-out for Fort William Historical Park’s viewing of Perseid Meteor Shower

Fort William Historical Park is offering a viewing of the Perseid Meteor Shower at the David Thompson Astronomical Observatory (DTAO) tonight.

Around 80 visitors will have the chance to see nearly 50 to 100 meteors colliding every hour with the Earth’s atmosphere as the planet passes through the debris field of the 1992 comet Swift-Tuttle.

This once-a-year meteor shower is visible in the night sky across northern Ontario from mid-July to the beginning of September, with the peak happening on Aug. 12 between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. ET.

“We’re really excited about our ability to be able to do this, to be able to facilitate people coming here and looking at the shower,” said Jonathan Reid, an environmental, ecological and outdoor education specialist at Fort William Historical Park.