Pluie d'été discrète mais régulière, aux météores lents. Elle se mêle aux premières Perséides à la fin juillet.
Maximum attendu la nuit du 29 au 30 juillet · jusqu'à 25 météores par heure · radiant dans le Verseau, regarder vers le sud · poussières de la comète 96P/Machholz.
Prochain rendez-vous céleste : Maximum des Perséides, le 12 août (jusqu'à 100 météores par heure) — dans 31 jours
Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar dust clouds that allows a view of the distant stars in the Sagittarius spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Direct your gaze through this gap with binoculars or a small telescope and you are looking through a window over 300 light-years wide at stars some 10,000 light-years or more from Earth. Sometimes called the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, M24's luminous stars stretch across this gorgeous interstellar scene. Spanning over four full moons on the sky toward the constellation Sagittarius, the telescopic field of view includes dark markings B92 and B93 near the center of M24, along with other clouds of dust and glowing nebulae toward the center of the Milky Way.