Meteor Shower Calendar 2021

Astronomical events and highlights of 2020 and 2021 including supermoons solar and lunar eclipses meteor showers solstices and equinoxes.

Meteor shower calendar 2021. The meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky. Meteor shower calendar 2021 also available in german. The heart of the calendar is the imo working list of visual meteor showers which is continuously updated so that it is the single most accurate listing available anywhere today for visual meteor observing.

December 21 22 ursids meteor shower. The shower runs annually from december 17 25. The ursids is a minor meteor shower producing about 5 10 meteors per hour.

They occur every year between july 17 and august 24 and tend to peak around august 9 13. 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 perseids are one of the brighter meteor showers of the year. 2020 cosmic calendar. It peaks this year on the the night of the 21st and morning of the 22nd.

2021 meteor shower calendar edited by jur gen rendtel 1 1 introduction this is the thirty rst edition of the international meteor organization imo meteor shower calendar a series which was started by alastair mcbeath. List of meteor showers. In 2021 the perseids will peak on the night between aug 12 13.

The leonids are a meteor shower associated with the comet tempel tuttle which is visible between the 14th and 21st of november 2021. Nevertheless it is a working list which is subject to further modifications based on.