New York Times (11 August 2017)

New York Today: Polluting the Perseids

The peak of the Perseid meteor shower is this weekend, and tonight and Saturday night are the best times to watch. Observers can expect to see at least 80 meteors an hour streak across the sky.

But not in New York City. And you can thank light pollution for that.

​To better understand light pollution, or excessive artificial light sent into the night sky, we turned to John Barentine, an astronomer and the program manager at the International Dark-Sky Association, an organization working to reduce light-polluted skies.

Read more: ​https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/nyregion/new-york-today-polluting-the-perseids.html