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Tuesday August 12th will see the annual Preseid Meteor shower be visible in the UAE.

The best time to see them will be after the moon has set, around 1.45am.

This is an amazing sight. If you get the chance to go out into the desert away from the city lights, where the sky is clear, you'll be in for a treat.

FYI:

The Perseids (pronounced /ˈpɝsiːɨdz/ pûr'sē-ĭdz) are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids are so called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. Meteor showers occur when Earth moves through a meteor stream. The stream in this case is called the Perseid cloud and it stretches along the orbit of the Comet Swift-Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it passed by the Sun. Most of the dust in the cloud today is approximately a thousand years old. However, there is also a relatively young filament of dust in the stream that boiled off the comet in 1862. The rate of meteors originating from this filament is much higher than for the older part of the stream.