The Eta Aquariids are a meteor shower associated with Halley’s Comet. The shower is visible from about April 19 to about May 28 each year with peak activity on or around May 5. These meteors are fast and travel at about 66km/s in our atmosphere and will peak for...
Normally a small number of “sporadic” meteors can be seen each hour of a moonless night. Sporadics are likely to be seen in any part of the sky. During a shower, the number of meteors visible may increase considerably. The meteors will appear to originate...
The Alpha Centaurids are a meteor shower in the constellation Centaurus, peaking in early February each year. Alpha Centaurii is the brightest or lower star of the 2 pointer stars to the Southern Cross. Peaking on the 8th of Feb, when rates between 6-8 may be visible...
Meteors are also known by many people as “shooting of falling stars”. They originate when the Earth passes near or through the leftover debris from a comet or asteroid’s orbit and those debris particles hit Earth’s atmosphere and burn up. When many of these meteors...
