Perseids Meteor Shower To Light Up The Sky Sunday Night

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as your skies are brighter, because of light pollution, or if you just spend less time out there, and don’t get your eyes fully dark adapted, you won’t see as many. So it might be a few minutes, or even ten minutes, between seeing these meteors....

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