| January |
| Quadrantids |
Dec 28-Jan6 Max Jan3/4 lasts 2-3hrs
Color: Blue Rate: 40-100
Speed: Med.
Trains: 5% Designation
QU
Location: Between Big Dipper and Hercules,
East of Alkaid or Eta Ursae Majoris.
Name from old constellation Quadrans
Muralis "Wall Quadrant" |
| Delta Cancrids |
Jan 1-24 Max
17th
Rate:
4 Designation
DC Speed:
Fast |
| Alpha Leonids |
Jan 13 to Feb 13
Rate:
10 Telescopic
Meteor Shower |
|
| February |
| Delta Leonids |
Early Feb to Mid-March Peak on 26th
Rate: <5 Speed: moderate
Designation
DL |
| Aurigids |
Feb5-Feb10
Color: Blue Rate:
2
Faint
Location: Near
Capella |
| Alpha
Centaurids |
Jan 28 to Feb 21 Max
Feb
8
Rate:
6 Designation
AC |
|
| March |
| Virginids |
Jan
25-Apr15 Max March 24
Rate:
5 Designation
VI |
| Gamma-Normids |
Feb25-March22 Max March13
Rate:
8 Designation
GN |
|
| April |
| Lyrids |
Apr
16-25 Max 21
Color: bright Rate: 10-15
Speed:
fast
Trains:
15% persistent
trains Designation
LY
Location: Between
Hercules/Lyra Radiant near Vega
Parent
Comet: Thatcher
Additional
Notes: Earliest recorded
meteor shower observation at 687BC. Typically every 4 min or so
a meteor is seen. About three days after Max possible
bright fireballs. 1982 there was a dense stream that the earth crossed
giving earth a show of 80 per hour. |
| April-May
Fireballs |
April 15 to
May
Additional
notes: Throughout
some of my reading on meteors I have found note of a
high occurrence of fireballs between April and May. In
Mike D. Reynolds book Falling Stars he
lists it in his meteor shower notes. There is no known
parent body or radiant, only a high occurrence at this
time of year for fireballs. |
|
| May |
| May Librids |
May 1 to May 9 Max May
6
Rate:
2-6
Location: Radiant in
Libra |
| Sagittarids |
April 15-July 15 May20
Rate: 5 Designation
SA |
| Eta Aquarids |
Apr21-May12 Max May
4-6
Color: Yellowish
Rate:
4 Speed:
swift
Trains: 30%
Designation
ET
Location: Radiant in Aquarius
Parent
Comet: Halley
Additional
notes: Best just before Sunrise. Best in Southern Hemisphere. |
| Sigma Leonids |
March 23-May 13 Max 17
Speed:
Slow |
|
| June |
| Tau Herculids |
Max June 3 Seen two weeks on either side of Max.
Speed:
Slow |
| June Draconids |
Max June 28
Location: Radiant east of Mizar in Big
Dipper
Parent
Comet:
Periodic Comet Pons-Winnecke
Additional
notes:
weak |
| June Lyrids |
June 10- June 21 Max June
15
Rate:
8 Trains:
1/3 leave trains
Location: Radiant
Lyra near Vega
Additional
notes: Faint
best observing is from 10pm to 1am. This meteor shower
was discovered in 1966 |
|
| July |
| Pegasids |
July
7-13 Max July9
Rate:
3 Designation
JP |
|
Southern Iota Aquarids |
Max July 29
Color:
Yellowish Rate: 15-20
Speed:
fast Designation
SI
Location: radiant North of
Fomalhaut
Additional
notes:
Joined by early Perseids best for Southern
Hemisphere, fine shower . |
| Alpha Capricornids |
Roughly July 15 to Aug10
July 30
Rate:
5 |
| Pisces Austrinids |
Jul15-Aug10 Max 27
Rate: 5
Designation
PA |
|
| August |
| Northern Delta
Aquarids |
Peaks same night as
Perseids Aug 12
Rate: 2-5 Designation
ND |
| Kappa Cygrids |
Second week of August to Early October peak August 18 |
| Northern Iota Aquarids |
Mid-July to September 20
Max Aug 20
Rate: 3 Designation
NI |
| Alpha-Aurigids
|
Aug25-Sept
5 Max Aug 31
Rate:
10 Designation
AU |
| Perseids |
July 20-Aug23 Max Aug 12
Color: many colors
Rate:
40-100 Speed:
swift
Trains:
45% Designation
PE
Parent
Comet:
Swift-Tuttle
Additional
notes:
Reliable |
|
| September |
| Piscids |
Sept.1-30 Max Sept20
Rate:
3 Designation
SP |
|
| October |
| Annual Andromedids |
Sept25 to Nov 12
Max Oct 3 |
| Orionids |
Oct2-Nov7 Max Oct
22
Color: faint Rate:
20 Speed:
swift
Trains:
20% Designation
OR
Location: Radiant Betelgeuse
Parent
Comet: Halley
Additional
notes: Concentration of
fireballs about three days after max (The Sky by Levy says three
days before Max) |
| Draconids |
Oct
6-10
Rate: not detectable every year
Designation
GI
Parent
Comet: Giacobini-Zinner
Additional
notes: On October 8, 1946 periodic Comet
Giacobini-Zinner passed 5 days earlier and a storm up to 2000
per hour was observed. (The Sky by Levy) |
| Northern Piscids |
September 25 to Oct. 19 Max Oct 12 |
|
| November |
Leonids
See
Leonid Page |
Nov14-21 Max Nov17
Rate: 15
Speed:
fast Designation
LE
Location: Radiant head of Leo
Parent
Comet:
Tempel-Tuttle
Additional notes: Every 33 yrs storm.
Some Storms 1966, 1998, 2001,
2002? |
| Southern Taurids |
Sept to End of November Max
Nov 13
Rate:<15
Speed:
Slow Designation
ST
Additional
notes: NAMN says peak on 5th
of
Nov |
| Northern Taurids |
Oct
1-Nov 25 Max Nov 12
Rate:
<15 Speed:
slow Designation
NT
Parent
Comet: Encke |
|
| December |
| Geminids |
Dec7-17 Max Dec13/14
Color:
Yellowish Rate:75
Speed:
med Designation
GE
Location: Radiant near Caster
Parent
Comet:
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon
Additional
notes:
Good shower. Quite good
before Midnight |
| Ursids |
Dec17-26 Max Dec 23
Color: faint
Rate:
5-10 Designation
UR
Location: Radiant Northeast of
Kochab,
or Beta Ursae Minoris |
| Monocerotids |
Nov. 27-End of Dec Max Dec 10
Rate:
3 Designation
MO |
| Puppid-Velids |
Dec1-15 Max Dec06
Rate:
10 Designation
PU |
| Coma Berenicids |
Dec12-Jan23 Max Dec 20
Rate:5
Speed: fast
Designation
CO |
|
|
Resources:
The Sky by Levy
Falling Stars by Mike D.
Reynolds
Celestial Delights by Reddy
|
