Shooting stars in the southern sky – inside – LC.nl

If the clouds cooperate, the shooting stars are numerous this weekend. The highlight is early Monday morning, between 5:15 and 07:45 about. Then the moon goes down and the sun is not up yet, so there is no light to disturb the show. If all goes well, we can see nearly forty shooting stars at the hour.

Before and after, the meteors were already functioning. Who wants to see the shooting stars must look south. ,, You have to watch Orion. This constellation looks a bit like an hourglass. It has two bright stars above, three weaker stars close together in the middle and two bright stars below. You do not have to look at one point, you just have to look in that direction. Look also left and right, from top to bottom, watch half of the sky, "says astronomer Marc van der Sluys of the Radboud University of Nijmegen.

The observation of the star shower is best seen under a dark sky. open space. Van der Sluys: "The meteors are faint flashes, there are some very bright meteors, there are some traces of light that are less clear and there are also a lot of weak meteors, you see that when the moon shines, example, and if you stand under a lamppost, you will not see any meteors, it is better to have a dark garden than in the street. "His advice:" Dress warmly. "In autumn and winter, do not sit outside for pleasure, sit at 5 or 10 degrees after a while, it will not be beautiful. ""

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The so-called Orionids are each year in the second half of # October, 39. They call themselves like that because they seem to come from the constellation Orion.It comes from the Halley comet, which whistled along the land in 1986. Every year the land goes through the tail of this comet.The dust particles enter the atmosphere at a altitude of 237,240 km / h, between 80 and 120 km altitude. There they burn. "Then the air starts to shine.This is the luminous trail we see, the meteor.We do not see the stone itself."

The inhabitants of the south and south-east of Countries have the best chance of seeing shooting stars According to Weeronline, it is probably cloudy in the north and west.