Meteor Shower

The interactive meteor shower sky map shows the position of the radiant in the night sky above any location.

Meteor shower. Plan ahead here are dates of major meteor showers. What is a meteor shower. Peak viewing times will vary by a day or two each year.

Meteor shower calendar 2020 2021. A meteor shower in august 1583 was recorded in the timbuktu manuscripts. Meteor showers are named for the constellation where the meteors appear to be coming from.

So for example the orionids meteor shower which occurs in october each year appear to be originating near the constellation orion the hunter. What is a meteor shower. What are the perseids.

The meteor shower is also visible on august 10 and august 13 as well according to the american meteor society. 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. A meteor shower is when a number of meteors or shooting stars flash across the night sky seemingly from the same point.

A meteor shower is when a number of meteors or shooting stars flash across the night sky seemingly from the same point. The first great meteor storm in the modern era was the leonids of november 1833. Click and drag to explore other parts of the sky.