The Lyrid Meteor Shower is known for its fast and bright meteors, with occasional fireballs. Meteor showers are named after the constellation where the “shooting stars” appear to be coming from. In the case of the Lyrids, the meteors come from the direction of the...
Stargazers out enjoying the Orionid Meteor Shower might expect to see up to 20 meteors per hour. It is generated from Halley’s Comet. It’s a well-known comet that last graced our night sky in 1986. In December 2024, the comet began its nearly 40-year...
The Perseid meteor shower is a popular meteor shower to observe in the northern hemisphere, with an average of about 100 meteors seen per hour. The Perseids are better seen from northern Western Australia or the northern hemisphere. The radiant point, the point in the...
The Southern delta-Aquariid meteor shower (also known as the Southern delta-Aquarid, or Southern δ-Aquariid) usually produces faint meteors, and observing meteor showers can already be tough at the best of times. Getting the best out of a meteor shower requires late...
This year, the conditions aren’t quite perfectly dark for viewing the Eta Aquariid meteor shower. The waning moon will illuminate the night sky at the time of the shower, reducing your visibility of faint meteors. You should still catch some brighter ones...
The Phoenicids Meteor Shower is a little unpredictable. When this shower was first observed in 1956, there were about 100 meteors per hour. However, since then it hasn’t been so spectacular. However, it is a meteor shower best seen in the southern hemisphere, so...
The Geminid meteor shower is generated from asteroid 3200 Phaethon and it’s one of the most active and best meteor showers to see. Since the asteroid’s discovery on 11th October 1983, by NASA’s Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), Phaethon has gone around the...
The Moon will have already set, and this creates ideal dark sky conditions for this year’s Leonid meteor shower. You can make the most of watching for “shooting stars”. Plus, you’ll have Jupiter and Mars to gaze at alongside the meteors! Both...
The Quadrantid meteor shower is better seen from northern Western Australia. The radiant point, or the point in the sky from which meteors appear to come, is below the horizon in southern WA, reducing the number of visible shooting stars. It is a popular meteor shower...
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