Meteor Shower Tonight

Take A Bath With Me In The Cosmic Glow...


Being an Astronomy nerd, I elect to get E-mail notifications of things going on in the sky from a website called Spaceweather.com. The really send out some interesting stuff and if you're inclined to wander outside in the middle of the night and take a look at what they're talking about I think that you'll rarely be disappointed.

Tonight we'll see the peak of the "ETA AQUARID METEOR SHOWER", an event caused by the Earth passing through the dust trail left by Halley's Comet each year.

They claim that if you will look to the eastern sky before twilight sunrise on Monday and Tuesday morning you can expect to see as many as 70 meteors per hour (a little over 1 per minute for the Florida grads.)

Grab a coat and a lawn chair and meet me outside about 4:30 AM, if you will...