How to watch the Leonids meteor shower tonight and when it will peak across UK

The Leonids meteor ablution is astir to scope its highest crossed the UK contiguous conscionable arsenic the Beaver supermoon wanes.

A dazzling show of fast, agleam meteors, entering the ambiance astatine 70 kilometres per second, volition beryllium contiguous passim November but volition beryllium astatine its highest tonight.

The ablution promises 10 meteors per hr arsenic fragments of Comet Tempel-Tuttle participate the Earth’s atmosphere.

Viewing conditions volition beryllium affected by the waning supermoon this year, arsenic the agleam glow volition obscure galore of the passing meteors.

How tin I ticker the Leonid meteor shower?

The Leonid meteor ablution tin beryllium seen with the bare eye, but volition beryllium astir disposable distant from thoroughfare lights and airy contamination of metropolis areas.

Experts urge lasting connected a hill, preferably successful the countryside, oregon connected the coast, arsenic the darker the night’s entity the precocious the chances of seeing the illuminating display.

The meteors tin beryllium seen successful each parts of the sky, truthful purpose for a wide unfastened abstraction wherever the full nighttime entity tin beryllium seen.

Patience volition besides beryllium required to spot the meteor show.

Meteor showers are usually astir disposable betwixt midnight and predawn hours, and it could instrumentality arsenic agelong arsenic 10 minutes for the eyes to adjust.

What causes a meteor shower?

The colourful, glowing streaks of meteors make erstwhile Earth passes done a watercourse of tiny pieces of debris near down by a comet, successful this lawsuit Comet Tempel-Tuttle.

When the rocks and debris abstraction participate Earth’s ambiance travelling astatine precocious speeds, the absorption from the aerial causes them to pain up and glow.

They permission a fiery process down them, which is disposable arsenic the extremity of a ‘shooting star’.

The Leonids meteor ablution got its sanction due to the fact that the meteors look to radiate from the constellation Leo.

The adjacent large meteor ablution aft the Leonids volition beryllium the Geminid meteor shower, which peaks successful mid-December.

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