Current Meteor Showers

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

Current meteor showers. Click and drag to explore other parts of the sky. In 2021 the perseids will peak on the night between aug 12 13. The interactive meteor shower sky map shows the position of the radiant in the night sky above any location.

In 2020 the orionids will peak on the night between oct 20 21. A meteor shower is when a number of meteors or shooting stars flash across the night sky seemingly from the same point. They are the second meteor shower of the month the draconids usually peak around october 7 or 8.

New meteor shower interactive sky map. List of meteor showers. In 2020 the leonids will peak on the night between nov 16 17.

Although the meteors can appear anywhere in the. Meteor shower calendar 2020 2021. The perseid meteor shower and the geminid meteor shower.

At its peak up to 20 meteors are visible every hour. If earth travels through this stream we will see a meteor shower. They occur every year between july 17 and august 24 and tend to peak around august 9 13.

The leonid meteor shower is annually active in the month of november and it usually peaks around november 17 or 18. A meteor shower is a spike in the number of meteors or shooting stars that streak through the night sky. As a comet orbits the sun it sheds an icy dusty debris stream along its orbit.