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Las Lágrimas de San Lorenzo            
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Lluvia de Meteoros Perseidas - shooting stars in August

Llàgrimes de Sant Llorenç - Pluja d'Estels. Las Lágrimas de San Lorenzo is a meteor shower of shooting stars. On 12th and 13th August every year in Spain, and around the world, you can see an impressive nighttime display of shooting stars, also called a meteor shower, called "the Perseids" meteor shower. In Spain the popular name for las Perseidas is “las Lágrimas de San Lorenzo” which translates as “Tears of San Lorenzo or Tears of St. Lawrence.” In Catalan they are called "Llàgrimes de Sant Llorenç." The Perseids meteor shower comes from debris left by a comet called Comet Swift-Tuttle, which is the largest object known to make repeated passes near the Earth. It can be difficult to see “las Lágrimas de San Lorenzo” in Barcelona because of heavy light pollution over the city, but if you are anywhere outside the city after midnight on 12th and 13th August,  there is a very good chance that you will see many shooting stars on these nights – up to sixty shooting stars an hour at peak times. Even though it is referred to as a "shower" you usually only see shootings stars one at a time, so don't expect to see the whole sky raining with stars.   To best see the stars you should scan the sky without using a telescope or binoculars - just with your eyes. The shooting stars can go in different directions and be anywhere in your field of vision but if you are patient then you will see one for sure. Take an extra sweater if you are heading inland. It can be chilly in the middle of the night. Probably not less than 18 degrees, but that can feel a bit cold if you are lying in a field or on a hilltop. You can see the Perseids shooting stars all through the month of August, but the nights of the 12th and 13th are considered the optimal dates with maximum concentration of this impressive rain of stars. You can read more in an article from 2010 (in Spanish) in the Spanish newspaper El Periodico about Las Lagrimas de San Lorenzo in Catalanya. They list several astronomy groups organise evening sessions every year to see this meteor shower.

AstroGirona 1 hour from Barcelona in Caldes de Malavella and 1.5 hours from Barcelona in Palamos,  
Astrobanyoles 1.5 hour from Barcelona in Banyoles,
AstroSeu 2,5 hours from Barcelona in La Seu d'Urgell  
Parc Astronomical Montsec 2 hours from Barcelona in Ager near Lleida,
Observatori Astronomic de Castelltallat 1 hour from Barcelona in Sant Mateu de Bages 
Observatori de Pujalt 1.5 hours from Barcelona in Pujalt

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Las Lágrimas de San Lorenzo
When:
12.08.2012 - 13.08.2012
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