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There's no moon, and not a star in the sky, and there's all this construction around.—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 3 July 2025 Keep in mind that the effect is most visible on nights when there is little to no moon in the sky, so time your trip accordingly to experience the special midnight magic found in Bocas del Toro.
Visit a cacao farm.—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2025 With no moon, people might be able to catch a glimpse of upwards of 10 to 15 Lyrids per hour.—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 15 Apr. 2025 The best conditions for catching a meteor shower are a clear sky with no moon or cloud cover, at sometime between midnight and sunrise.—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025 In prime conditions of dark skies and no moon, viewers could spot upwards of 100 meteors per hour on the nights of the shower’s peak.—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024 Under a dark sky with no moon, up to 120 meteors per hour could potentially be seen streaking across the sky, according to EarthSky.org.—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2024 Under dark skies with no moon, both South Taurids produce about five meteors per hour and 10 total when the North and South Taurids overlap.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
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