HELP!!! next weeks meteor shower?

Question

during the "shower" would i be able to see it in south carolina?

if so at what time ( am and pm)

Answer 1

Yeah, you'll be able to see it. And it'll last a couple days, so I guess whenever you want to go out and look.  

Answer 2

You should be able to see it from South Carolina easily...as the contributor above said...it is not a localized event...you can see it from anywhere in the world...

The best time to see it will be the morning of the 12th at starting about 2 or 3 a.m. all the way till sunrise. You can see it earlier than that, on earlier dates as well as on later dates for a couple weeks, but the peak is at that time.

Answer 3

The meteor shower is best seen after midnight, looking towards the northwest.  As night advances, they will appear (position will be random but direction will almost always be from north east to south west).

By 2 a.m., best to watch directly overhead.  Every once in a while, scan the entire sky (from north to south) since they can appear any where (but they will always seem to go generally E to W or NE to SW).

Answer 4

Meteor showers are not local events, they can usually be seen over most of the planet.

The best way to see meteor showers is to be far from any big city and bright lights (like a shopping mall or ball field).

The darker the sky the better.

The Perseids are visible between mid-July to mid-August, with the peak this year on August 12 (the rate during the peak can be as much as 60 or more per hour). They can be seen all across the sky, but because of the path of the comet Swift-Tuttle (which is the originating comet for this shower), Perseids are mostly visible in the northern hemisphere.

The Perseids have a broad peak, so the shower is visible for several nights. On any given night, activity starts slowly in the evening but picks up by 11 p.m., when the radiant gets reasonably high in the sky. The meteor rate increases steadily through the night as the radiant rises higher, peaking just before the sky starts to get light, about 1 to 2 hours before sunrise.