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Anonymous
>>68009 If you're in North America, the constellation Perseus rises in the NNE around 10pm. Around that constellation is the Swift-Tuttle comet. Earth's orbit goes by the tail, so the dust and debris from the comet hits the atmosphere and lights up.
I'm not really an astronomer either, but I recommend checking your area with stellarium (google: downloads for mac, linux and windows). Just set your location in the settings, set the time to 11pm or so, August 12th and check the sky for Perseus (enable constellation names + tracings). That's the general direction the shower will occur in.
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