Brian Lair on WNYC, and yes, for our final segment today, let's turn our eyes to the sky because

July, apparently, is a peak time to do some stargazing. New Yorkers can enjoy the return of what's

called Manhattan Henge, even though you kind of look straight ahead for that. And a trio of meteor showers

will light up the sky after midnight. Joining us now is Jackie Faradie, an astrophysicist at the

American Museum of Natural History, who will talk about

what you need to know and how to watch it all. Jackie, welcome back to WNYC. Great to have you again.

Hi, Brian. I'm happy to be here. And listeners, maybe we can squeeze in a few calls here if you

are a city stargazer or from anywhere in our metro area, even where it actually gets dark at night.

A meteor shower chaser, do you have a favorite summer sky memory?

Have you found a place to watch the night sky from city or outside?

212-433, WNNy-C-433-9-6-92, call her text.

Jackie Manhattan Henge a la Stonehenge. Does this count as stargazing?

Yeah, totally, because it's the star.

The sun.

It's the sun, yeah. So I think that it's the star. The sun. It's the sun, yeah.

So I think that it's the OG stargazing, if you will, because it is our sun.

And the thing is that people forget we used to use monitoring the position of the sun as our like timekeeping method. So this isn't just like an

Instagram holiday for your best sunset picture. It's also a reminder of how we used to use

astronomy as our timekeeping method. And so I now, every time Manhattan Hens season comes around, I feel like I know where the Earth

is in its orbit around the sun.

And it's the perfect time because we're lined up with the position of the sun right at sunset.

So I encourage everybody to still go out and watch that.

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