{"id":111675,"date":"2025-08-02T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111675\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:56:08","slug":"nows-the-time-to-watch-the-perseid-meteor-show-from-east-county-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111675\/","title":{"rendered":"Now\u2019s the time to watch the Perseid meteor show from East County \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sky will be pretty clear every night through at least the middle of next week, making this a great time to view the annual Perseid meteor shower \u2014 especially east of Interstate 15 in San Diego County, where there\u2019s less light pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The shower will reach its peak late on the night of Aug. 12 and in the early hours of Aug. 13. But NASA says it will be hard to see meteors at that time, because about 84 percent of the moon will be illuminated.<\/p>\n<p>Skygazers should head to areas in the county\u2019s eastern foothills, mountains and deserts that offer a clear of the sky. Meteors can appear anywhere above the horizon, though many people like to face northeast, where they can see constellation Perseid.<\/p>\n<p>The ideal viewing period lasts from roughly midnight to shortly before dawn. It\u2019s important to give your eyes 20 to 30 minutes to adjust to the dark before searching for meteors, which <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/meteors-meteorites\/perseids\/#:~:text=The%20pieces%20of%20space%20debris,the%20source%20of%20the%20meteors.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">materialize<\/a> when ice and dust thrown off by Comet Swift-Tuttle hit Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burn up.<\/p>\n<p>Spotting meteors from the county\u2019s coastal communities will be difficult due to light pollution. And the overnight marine layer is likely to be at least 700 feet deep into next week, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sky will be pretty clear every night through at least the middle of next week, making this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[746,1370,728,50,159,783,7289,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-111675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-top-stories-sdut","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114956454521693429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}