Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/1999/08/12/nasa_to_webcast_meteor_shower/

NASA to Webcast meteor shower

Weather balloon with Web cam to film Perseid's firework display

By Tim Richardson

Posted in On-Prem, 12th August 1999 13:45 GMT

Eclipse watchers who weren't blinded -- or half frozen to death -- by yesterday's solar event will have the chance to watch a meteoric firework display without having to wear those stupid cardboard-rimmed glasses. NASA is launching a weather balloon tomorrow complete with a Webcam so that stargazers can watch Perseid's meteors spark around the heavens. LiveOnTheNet.com has teamed up with NASA to broadcast the event -- by all accounts it should be quite a show. ®