Finding Orion's Belt is the easiest way to locate the Orion Constellation. Orion's Belt is formed by three bright stars; Alnilam, Mintaka and Alnitak. Orion is in the southwestern sky if you are in the Northern Hemisphere or the northwestern sky if you are in the Southern Hemisphere. It...
Orionids are named after Orion, because the meteors seem to emerge or radiate from the same area in the sky as theconstellation. What Time Does the Meteor Shower Peak? The table is updated daily and shows the position of the Orionids radiant in the sky for the upcoming night. Use the ...
—Night sky: What you can see tonight [maps] —The greatest meteor storms of all time The best time to view the Orionid meteor shower is between midnight and dawn when the shower's radiant, the Orion constellation, is high in the sky. The Orionids are active from Sept. 26 to Nov. ...
The gibbous Moon is setting in the west about an hour and a half before sunrise. As it does so, it leaves a short dark window for observing — let’s use it this morning to look toward Lynx, a somewhat lesser-known constellation now high in the east, just to the left (northeast) ...
The Starlink 6-93 mission will be the company’s 470th Falcon 9 rocket launch to date and will add another 28 satellites to the constellation of more than 7,300 currently on orbit. ... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - May 6) SCIENTISTS CHASED A FALLING SPACECRAFT WITH A PLANE TO ...
Even though the moon already turned full this past week and is now on the wane, it will still have an adverse impact on this year's Orionids. On the morning of the Orionid maximum on Monday, it will be quite close to the star El Nath in the nearby constellation of Auriga; an 80%...
It's a distinctive three stars of a similar brightness in a line, and they really stand out as part of that kind of box that makes up theconstellation Orionitself. In the winter through to the spring [in the Northern Hemisphere], it's pretty prominent above the southern horizon. In the...