Archive for November, 2009

Leonid Meteor Shower Time

We love on looking in the sky, especially if there is a scheduled meteor shower which usually happens once every hundred years. And as we have heard about meteor shower we usually anticipate and learn when it will happen.

One of the anticipated meteor shower is Leonid meteor shower and according to NASA the best time to see it in the sky is after 1:30 a.m. EST on November 17 and you can also view this during the sunrise on the same date.

Every time that a meteor shower is scheduled to capture the sky, many people are preparing their cameras and take a picture on the meteor shower. A lot of these people are astrophotographers who loves watching and capturing every moment of the Leonid meteor shower.

And if you want to have prime viewing location of this meteor shower, three astronomers David Asher of Ireland, Jeremie Vaubaillon from France and Mikhail Maslov of Russia said the India is the best location to have prime view on the meteor shower. This is also confirmed by Danielle Moser and Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office.

And if you want to know the best time to view Leonid meteor shower you can visit NASA’s web site and choose the country you are in and it will give you the time that will give you the best time to view the meteor shower.

If you are located at United States you can only view 20-30 meteors per hour and to those who are located in Asia they are fortunate enough because they can have 200-300 meteors per hour and it can have up to 500 meteors on its peak according to NASA.

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