The Qatar Calendar House announced that residents of the northern hemisphere, including residents of the State of Qatar, will have a date with seeing and monitoring the Lyrid meteor shower for this year, as it will reach its peak on Saturday evening and will extend until dawn on Sunday. Dr. Bashir Marzouk, an astronomer at the Qatar Calendar House, explained that the Lyrid meteors are active annually during the period from mid-April to April 25 of each year, but they reach their peak on the twenty-second of April of each year, and the Lyrid meteor shower is considered a shower. The distinctive meteor because it is one of the bright meteors, and its fall rate in the sky at its peak will reach 20 meteors per hour, according to the estimation of astronomers. Residents of the State of Qatar and the countries of the Arab region will be able to monitor and see the Lyrid meteors without the need for astronomical devices or telescopes, as they can see and monitor the Lyrid meteors with the naked eye, starting tomorrow evening, Saturday, by looking towards the northeastern horizon of the sky of each country from midnight until dawn on Sunday. . Modern digital cameras can be used to obtain images of the Lyrid meteor shower, taking into consideration increasing the exposure time during imaging to obtain distinctive images of the Lyrid meteors. Dr. Bashir Marzouk added that the guilty " Thatcher" It is the source of the occurrence of the Lyrid meteor shower, when the earth moves in its orbit around the sun and passes near the dust grains left by the comet (Thatcher) during the month of April of each year, so those grains intersect with the earth’s atmosphere, and a flash occurs that is seen in the sky of the globe The phenomenon of meteors in general occurs as a result of the passage of the Earth near the fine debris and dust grains left by comet particles. It is worth noting that the Lyrid meteors will have a good opportunity this year, as the moon will be in the crescent phase, which means that it will not be present in the sky at the height of the Lyrid meteors, which allows the meteors to be well monitored, because the moonlight will not affect the vision of the meteors. Because it is below the horizon. It must be taken into account that the best places to see the Lyrid meteors are the darkest places, which are the places far from residential areas that contain light and environmental pollutants.
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