Professor Britton tipped me off to this last Saturday at Club Hell — it’s Perseid Meteor Shower Week! And we are hours away from peak viewing hours. Set your alarm for 4am (Wednesday morning). According to Sky and Telescope,

The Perseid meteor shower peaks late tonight and tomorrow night. Light from the nearly last-quarter Moon poses some interference. See our Perseids story for more details.

In particular, observers will be paying special attention around 4 a.m. EDT (1 a.m. PDT) on Wednesday morning the 12th, when according to one prediction, Earth will cross a rich sub-filament of the Perseids that could produce an upsurge in activity for an hour or so.

Weather permitting, Wednesday’s open house at the CCRI Margaret M. Jacoby Observatory should be focused on this event (9pm to 11:30pm).

Another rain delay for the First Light party originally scheduled for tonight, Wednesday, at the Margaret M. Jacoby Observatory on the Knight Campus of CCRI. They will try again on June 17th.  Meanwhile Triangle Forest (with frontman and observatory director Professor Britton) are scheduled to play the Providence Art Festival this coming Saturday the 13th . . . weather permitting I suppose. Jeez Louise this rain thing is getting old. Click here to see what the night sky would look like this week if we could maybe actually ever see it. (More on TF in the latest Phoenix in a piece about the electronic music scene.)

Presumably Professor Britton has no trouble getting a date — he’s an uber-cool musician with a 16-incher.  (Okay okay, that’s obvious and juvenile, but at least I didn’t make a salacious pun in my headline like Dave said he wasn’t gonna do, but then he totally did!). An article in yesterday’s ProJo reported on the opening of the new 16-inch telescope at the Margaret Jacoby Observatory on the grounds of the Community College of Rhode Island and profiled its director Professor Brendan Britton without once mentioning his (techno/electronica/synthy) band Triangle Forest.

First I must mention that last night’s First Light Party at the observatory was postponed due to weather, and has been rescheduled for next Wednesday June 10th. (Check the website for updates.) But how cool is this guy… a musician who teaches physics and astronomy. He and Brian May (who finally completed his Ph.D. thesis in astrophysics, Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, in 2007) could just sit around discussing quasars and guitar picks over a cup of tea. The observatory is open to the public on Wednesdays, and Triangle Forest is playing tonight downtown. They will be appearing later this summer at Wooly Fair and IndieArts Fest, and have upcoming shows at AS220 and Wheels as well.

Triangle Forest plays tonight, Thursday, Club Energy, 69 Union Street

RHD in Your Face has On Fire, Xerxes, Los Monos Locos, Barnacled, Tomorrowcats, at Firehouse no. 13/41 Central Street/$4/doors 7PM/music 8:30PM

Triangle Forest, Digital Leader, Troop of Echoes, Vapor 37 at AS220/115 Empire Street/$6/9PM

Live Jazz & Funk at Tazza Caffe/250 Westminster Street/10PM to 2AM

Tonight at the weekly electrofunk party Jump, special guests Triangle Forest along with res. DJ Marty Party Jump, Club Energy, 10pm, $3