How To View Meteor Shower

See meteor shower animation to find out visibility conditions for viewing the meteor shower from your location.

How to view meteor shower. You can see a meteor in the night sky at any time but if you want the best chance of seeing one or many plan your outing around a meteor calendar. The perseids meteor shower is coming aug. New meteor shower interactive sky map.

Meteor shower calendar 2020 2021. A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate or originate from one point in the night sky called radiant these meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering earth s atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. The interactive meteor shower sky map shows the position of the radiant in the night sky above any location.

The rambling delta aquarid meteor shower continues through mid month so you may see a few of those too. The delta aquarids are not as prolific as the perseids but up to 10 percent of them leave. The third quarter moon won t rise until after midnight so the best viewing times will be from 10.

The 2020 perseid meteor shower just got easier to see. Click and drag to explore other parts of the sky. Meteor showers happen year round with the month of november being the most active time.

The rate per hour gives some idea of how many meteors you can expect to see under optimum conditions while the description gives some more detail about each meteor shower. 10 14 with the peak nights of aug. You can see the perseid meteor shower best in the northern hemisphere and down to the mid southern latitudes and all you need to catch the show is darkness somewhere comfortable to sit and a bit.

The most popular meteor shower around is coming to the sky for the grandest performance it can muster for one night only. Annual meteor showers tend to take place over several days some even over weeks or months and it is possible to view several meteors on any day the shower is active. The meteor shower usually gets its name from the constellation that contains that radiant.