A waning crescent moon creates ideal dark sky conditions for this year’s Leonids Meteor Shower. You can make the most of watching for “shooting stars”. The Leonids Meteor Shower is generated from comet Tempel-Tuttle. The shower, which radiates from...
This year, the conditions aren’t quite perfectly dark for viewing the Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower. The waning Moon will illuminate the night sky at the time and this will reduce visibility of faint meteors. You should still catch some brighter ones though. It’s...
The Southern delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower 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 nights, dark skies, a little luck, and lots of patience. The...
The Lyrids 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...
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