Orionid Meteor shower to light the night sky for most of November

Orionids Meteor’s shower, which is considered one of the most beautiful showers of the year, could light up the sky with shooting stars for most of next month.

NASA said the Orionids culminated in mid-October every year, and meteors are known for their brightness and speed.

The ability to see the filming stars depends on a clear night sky, while a broken gibbous moon moves between the full phases and the last quarter, surpassing the weaker meteors and reducing the number of meteors visible for the sky gazers.

According to NASA, Some of the Orionids leave behind bright “trains” or pieces of incandescent debris as a result of the meteor, which could last up to several minutes, and some faster meteors could also become balls of fire.

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Orionid Meteor’s shower lights up in the night sky on a desert on October 22, 2023, in the county of Yuli, Mongolin Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, autonomous region of Xinjiang Uygur, China. (VCG / VCG via Getty Images)

The Meteors Orionids are pieces of Halley’s comet and are framed by some of the brightest stars in the night sky.

“Each time Halley returns to the inner solar system, its nucleus leaves ice and rocky dust in space. These dust grains finally become the Orionids in October and the ETA aquarids in May if they collided with the atmosphere of the earth,” said NASA.

At the top of the Meteor shower, which is scheduled for Monday, the Skywatchers could see up to 15 meteors per hour, depending on where they are in the northern hemisphere.

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The meteors cross the sky on a desert during the shower of Orionid Meteor on October 22, 2023, in the county of Yuli, in China. (VCG / VCG via Getty Images)

Although the clear sky is important, the second most crucial vision condition is a dark sky far from light pollution.

Bill Cooke, who heads the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, in Alabama, suggests that budding Skywatchers find an area far from the city lights.

“Prepare with a blanket. Lie flat on your back and look up, taking as much sky as possible,” he said on the NASA website. “In less than 30 minutes in the dark, your eyes will adapt and you will start to see meteors.”

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Halley’s Comet against Uluru, Outback Australia, 1986. (Photography / Getty Images)

NASA says the Orionids are visible in the north and southern hemispheres for the hours after midnight until dawn.

While the Orionids Meteor shower peak is October 21, the Orionids will be active until November 22.

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It takes 76 years from Halley’s comet to orbit the sun, and the last time it was visible for occasional astronomers, it was in 1986. The comet should not enter the domestic solar system until 2061, NASA said.