‘Aoife's Blogs’ Archives
When and where to see Leonids on Tuesday night
The Leonid radiant will have risen above the horizon by 1 am, Wednesday morning. By about 3 am it should be barely high enough to see. Look due east, below and to the right of Ursa Major (the Plough). The map in Aoife's blog entry will apply around 4 am. All times expressed in GMT.
Leonids – 500 meteors per hour predicted on 17th November
Get ready for the Leonids to put on a great show this year. Last year there was a better meteor shower than in recent years with 100 meteors per hour noted by observers in Asia & Europe. A meteor storm is defined as 1000 meteors per hour or more. With predictions of 500 or more meteors an hour this year's shower should be a half [...]
Orionids Meteor Shower
Over the next few nights if we are lucky and have a clear night we should be able to see the Orionids. The Orionids Shower should produce 20 to 25 meteors an hour at its peak on Wednesday night. They should be fairly easy to spot thanks to a moonless midnight sky. The meteor shower gets it's name as the meteors appear to radiate from near the [...]
