Monday, October 8, 2012

When To Watch The Draconid Meteor Showers

Stargazers have two opportunities to watch meteor showers this month: the Dracnoid and Orionids.
If you missed the Dracnoid show on during it's peak on Sunday and Monday, you still have a chance on Tuesday. Look up to the skies and you might see a second showing of the Dracnoid meteor shower:

"The radiant point for the Draconid meteor shower almost coincides with the head of the constellation Draco the Dragon in the northern sky. That’s why the Draconids are best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. The Draconid shower is a real oddity, in that the radiant point stands highest in the sky as darkness falls. Unlike many meteor showers, the Draconids are more likely to fly in the evening hours than in the morning hours after midnight. This shower is usually a sleeper, producing only a handful of languid meteors per hour in most

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