To enjoy the phenomenon, stargazers must find a dark location. NARIT mentioned that while only about 20 showers or shooting stars would appear per hour, the meteor shower could still be observed easily.
NARIT advised that the best time to watch would be after midnight, as the Orion constellation would be positioned in the middle of the sky, and the showers would be visible throughout the sky.
The Orionids are caused when Earth passes through the stream of ice and dust debris left behind by Halley’s Comet along its orbit. As these tiny particles—some as small as a grain of sand—plunge into Earth’s atmosphere, they burn up due to friction with the air, creating the brilliant streaks of light we call meteors or “shooting stars.”