In his additional comments, Richard Gullick, who has served as the water-quality consultant for HWW for over five years, criticized the Board of Health, MassDEP, and local media.
Even faint shooting stars may be visible in dark skies in locations away from artificial light. The peak of the Eta Aquariids is predicted to be before dawn Sunday morning, May 5.
The Orionid meteor shower, predicted to peak before dawn on Sunday the 21st, is active through November 7. At peak, in a dark location under a moonless sky, a maximum of 15 to 20 shooting stars per hour are predicted.
Although moonlight will screen out a view of all but a fraction of the shooting stars in the Geminid meteor shower, “a patient observer may be able to spot 20 or so per hour, even from urban locations,” according to the United States Naval Observatory writer.
November 16—29, 2015
Mt. Washington -- It was just as celebrity astronomy writers had described, except that I was indoors gazing out a picture window...
