Shooting Star Shower

Wait for a shooting star.

Shooting star shower. Local times and best dates to view shooting stars from annual meteor showers. If earth travels through this stream we will see a meteor shower. Press a to make a wish.

As a comet orbits the sun it sheds an icy dusty debris stream along its orbit. Don t get discouraged if it seems like the shooting stars have stopped sooner than that. See the chart above for date of maximum which lists the peak of each meteor shower when the shooting stars will be most frequent.

Active from around july 17 through august 24 each year the perseid meteor shower builds up to a peak of around 100 shooting stars per hour during the peak night with the active the delta. The radiant for this meteor shower is close to the constellation of lyra whose bright star vega is easy to spot rising in the east but shooting stars can occur anywhere in the sky. They tend to come in waves with lulls in between.

On the night of april 21 the 2012 lyrid meteor shower peaked in. However the next meteor shower you re most likely to enjoy perhaps while camping under dark skies is indeed 2021 s return of the. Although the meteors can appear anywhere in the.

2020 cosmic calendar astronomical events and highlights of 2020 and 2021 including supermoons solar and lunar eclipses meteor showers solstices and equinoxes. The time of the year for each shower is determined by when in earth s orbit it crosses the stream of meteoroids. Expect about 20 shooting stars per hour for that one.

Catch a shooting star. The shooting stars are known for their speed and brightness though they don t compare to the brilliant perseids shower in august. Use the meteor shower animation to find out how where and when to see these shooting stars.