On what days and in what areas are they clearly visible?
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower can be clearly seen on May 5th and 6th this year.
This year it will be possible to clearly observe Eta aquaridsas the new moon on May 8th will allow the meteor shower to continue with night darkness at its zenith, between May 5 and 6.
This phenomenon occurs every year from April 19 to May 28. Observation of it is more favorable from places located in tropicas is the case with the islands Canary Islands and in the southern hemisphere, although they can be seen from North hemisphere.
This meteor shower contains fragments of Halley’s Comet.
Eta aquarids are associated with Comet Halleylike a meteor shower Orionids, which will take place in October. Eta aquarid meteors have an activity rate of 40 to 85 meteors per hour and a fairly high speed, about 66 kilometers per second, reports National Astronomical Observatory (OAN).
For mid-latitude observers, the eta Aquarid radiant is located above the horizon on the four hours later from midnight until dawn. The Eta Aquarid meteors are fragments of Comet Halley 1/P, which orbits the Sun every time. 76 years old and was last seen in 1986. Like every year around this time, Earth It passes through a ring filled with debris from Halley’s Comet.
When one of these fragments (or meteoroids) comes into contact with atmosphere earthly, is burned as a result of friction with air, thereby creating a luminous glow, which we know as meteor or a shooting star. Halley’s Comet is also the source of another meteor shower, the Orionids, which peaks on October 21st.
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The corresponding meteor shower appears to have a single center of origin, the point from which all meteor showers appear to originate. Falling stars. This point is called the “radiant” and its location is used to name a meteor shower. Thus, the eta Aquarids have a radiant in the star of the constellation Aquarius.
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