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There is good reason tonight to study the starry sky – the peak of the Draconids meteor shower is between 22.30 and 23.30. See the cloud chart below: at least in the north-western part of the mainland the sky may be clear although the moonlight may disturb a little, but that we will see already in the evening.

 

Look to the southwest, or the Draco constellation, and look up about 50 degrees above the horizon. Astronomers predict a shower of five hundred to a thousand meteors per hour – of course a large part of them will stay unnoticed by us but if visibility is good the shower may be richer than the Leonids in August.

 

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Saturday 8.10, 21-24. Cloud cover in %.  Arrows – direction of wind.

The weather chart has been compiled on the basis of NOAA mathematical models.