Orionid meteor shower 2022: Peak expected tonight - Axios

Look up to the entity for streaking meteors and fireballs: The Orionid meteor ablution is expected to highest overnight tonight, Space.com reports.

Driving the news: There’s expected to beryllium comparatively small moonlight to get successful the mode of spotting “spectacular displays of up to 80 meteors an hour,” the website notes.

• This meteor ablution is an yearly lawsuit astatine the extremity of October erstwhile the Earth passes done meteoroids near down by Halley's Comet, The New York Times explains.

Of note: NASA said it's "considered to beryllium 1 of the astir beauteous showers of the year."

How to spot Orionid meteor shower

What we're watching: The Orionids are viewable aft midnight and until dawn, NASA said, offering the pursuing tips to presumption the meteors:

• Find an country good distant from the metropolis oregon thoroughfare lights.
• Bring a sleeping bag, broad oregon tract chair.
• Lie level connected your backmost with your feet facing southeast if you are successful the Northern Hemisphere oregon northeast if you are successful the Southern Hemisphere, and look up, taking successful arsenic overmuch of the entity arsenic possible, NASA said.
• In little than 30 minutes successful the dark, your eyes volition accommodate and you volition statesman to spot meteors.

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