Twin phenomena tonight: Eclipse and meteor shower

An exciting phenomena is going to happen tonight a lunar eclipse and a meteor shower. According to the PAGASA director Prisco Nilo, a partial lunar eclipse will start to take place at 6:16pm and the peak will be seen at 7:38pm the eclipse is expected to end at 10:21pm. The eclipse can bee seen by South East Asian Countries, including the Philippines; Most of the United States, some islands of the Pacific Ocean and Antartica.

At midnight the sky will light up with for the yearly Bootid meteor shower, the said shower will last till the end days of this month of June. The meteor shower is caused by the debris of the comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke. The peak of the meteor shower can be seen at the night time of June 27, 2010.

However we are experiencing cloudy and cool rainy nights lately which gives us a little chance of seeing this twin phenomena. According to PAGASA, base on the latest satellite images there is a possibility that tonight is gonna be a cloudy night caused by the Southwesterly surface windflow prevailing over Northern Luzon and this weather will be experience for the coming days.

But let’s try our luck tonight hoping to have a cloudless sky for just an hour or so will make the night.

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