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Meteor Showers!  Watching the night sky will remind you how amazing our world really is.

 

Eta Aquarids: May 5-6, 2025

 - one of two meteor showers created by Earth passing through debris left behind by Halley’s Comet in its 76 year orbit of the sun

 - 50 meteors/hour

 - from 3am to 6am low in the sky with radiant (“radiant” is the area of the sky from which meteors appear to originate) in the East/Southeast

Perseids: Aug 12-13, 2025

 - one of the brighter meteor showers

 - 60-100 meteors/hour

 - debris from comet Swift-Tuttle

 - radiant rises in Northern sky at 8pm and moves up from the horizon and toward the NE over the course of the night

 

Orionids: Oct 20-21, 2025*

 - 20 meteors per hour

 - this is the other meteor shower that is created by Earth passing through debris left behind by Halley’s Comet in its 76 year orbit of the sun

 - visible low in the eastern sky starting just after midnight and progressing higher in the sky and moving to the southern sky by early morning (due south at 60% above the horizon at 5am on October 21) 

 

Geminids: Dec 13-14, 2025

 - considered one of the most spectacular

 - 150 meteors/hour

 - debris from the asteroid 3200 Phaethon that orbits the sun every 1.4 years

 - radiant starts low in the NE sky at 6pm on Saturday Dec 13 and moves up in the sky and across toward the western sky over the course of the night (at 10pm it is in the E at 50 degrees above the horizon; at 2am it is in the S at 80 degrees above the horizon; and ends the night at 5am in the W at 50 degrees above the horizon)

*other meteor showers will happen, the listed are larger events in our region.  Enjoy.