Orionid meteors<\/a> are best spotted between the hours of midnight and dawn on Oct. 22, when 10-20 shooting stars<\/a> may be seen brightening the night sky each hour under ideal dark-sky.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The glare cast by the 74%-lit waxing gibbous moon will hide fainter shooting stars for much of the night. Thankfully, the lunar disk will set a few hours after midnight, leaving a window of beautifully dark sky before dawn in which to enjoy the full majesty of the annual meteor shower. Remember to use a trusted website like Time and Date<\/a> to discover the exact moment of moonset for your location.<\/p>\n Where should I look to see Orionid meteors?<\/p>\n Orionid shooting stars will appear to originate from a patch of sky, or radiant, located close to the red giant star Betelgeuse<\/a> in the constellation Orion<\/a>, which glistens above the southeastern horizon for stargazers in the U.S. during the early hours of Oct. 22.<\/p>\n For the best views look 40-90 degrees away from the radiant, where the glowing trains left in the wake of the fast-moving meteors will be at their longest. Be sure to head away from artificial lights and allow 20-30 minutes for your eyes to fully adapt to the dark for the best<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n What causes the Orionid meteor shower?<\/p>\n The Orionid meteor shower is active each year as Earth<\/a> passes through the stream of debris left behind by Comet 1P\/Halley<\/a>, which was observed by a fleet of spacecraft<\/a> when it last visited the inner solar system<\/a> in 1986.<\/p>\n Shooting stars become visible when particles of the ancient comet collide with our planet’s atmosphere at 147,600 miles per hour<\/a> (237,539 kilometers per hour), vaporizing in a spectacular display of natural fireworks.<\/p>\n Hoping to catch a shooting star for yourself? Then be sure to read our guide to photographing meteor showers<\/a>, along with our picks of the best cameras<\/a> and lenses for astrophotography<\/a>.<\/p>\n Editor’s Note: If you would like to share your Orionid photos with Space.com’s readers, then please send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to spacephotos@space.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orionid meteor shower peaks overnight on Oct. 21-22, triggering a spectacular display of shooting stars as Earth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-633412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Space\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/dpnbewsyjn1783958986.svg\")
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