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Pegasids

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July Pegasids
Celestial map of Pegasus
Parent body C/1979 Y1 (Bradfield)
Radiant
Constellation Pegasus
Right ascension 23 h  12 m  -0 s
Declination +10° 08′ 00″
Properties
Occurs during July 4 to Aug 8 [1]
Date of peak July 11
Velocity 64.1 [1]  km/s
Zenithal hourly rate 3 [1]
See also: List of meteor showers

The meteor shower of the July Pegasids occurs between July 4 and Aug 8. It is a weak meteor shower that has its maximum around July 11 having a ZHR of only 3 meteors per hour. The meteors have, however, an atmosphere entry speed of about 64 km/s.

The Radiant of the Pegasids is in the constellation of Pegasus , around 5 degrees to the west of the star α Pegasi . The origin of this meteor shower is probably the comet C/1979 Y1 (Bradfield) . [2] C/1979 Y1 has an orbital period of 308 years, [3] and should return around 2287.

For Central Europe , the best time to watch them is the second half of the night, as the radiant reaches at that time a sufficient height over the horizon .

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b c "2023 Meteor Shower List" . American Meteor Society (AMS) . Retrieved 2023-08-05 .
  2. ^ "Meteor Data Center" . Archived from the original on 2017-08-21 . Retrieved 2014-05-26 .
  3. ^ "Small-Body Database Lookup: C/1979 Y1 (Bradfield)" .