The naked eye is usually best for seeing meteors which often streak more than 45 degrees across the sky. The field of view of most binoculars and telescopes is simply too narrow for good meteor observations. This point, called the radiant, is really an optical illusion - the meteors are moving along parallel paths, but appear to come from a single point, just as a stretch of parallel railroad tracks will appear to meet at a point on the horizon. Aug 6, 1999. A NASA weather balloon will ascend to the stratosphere for a live webcast of the 1999 Perseids.
Experts make their predictions.
Information about the eta Aquarids meteor shower and Halley's comet. This weekend scientists will launch a weather balloon designed to capture meteoroids in the stratosphere. New images of Leonid fireballs and their smoky remnants. The peak of the Leonid meteor shower happened more than 14 hours earlier than experts had predicted. NASA science balloon catches video of 8 fireballs.