Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower

                          Eta Aquarid Meteor shower is an annual meteor shower occurring in early May. This is one of the two shower caused by the halley comet.

                          Halley has a period of 75-76 years that means we humans can see this comet only once in a lifetime. Each year earth passes twice through the debris of halley comet, this debris contains small chunks of ice and rocks.

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Where to look for them???
          Eta Aquarid Meteor shower originates from constellation Aquarius i.e they appear to come from the constellation Aquarius.

          So to spot this meteor shower look east and locate constellation Aquarius, if you don't know where to locate this constellation, don't worry just look east after 0230 AM, this is the time when Aquarius is visible to us.

          So just camp after 2-3 AM upto dawn and look east at about an angle of 30-60 degree and stare the sky for about 20-30 minutes, so that your eyes adapts to the night sky and then the show will be on till dawn.

This Meteor shower will be bets visible from southern atmosphere, rate will be about 50-60 meteors/hour but for northern atmosphere about 10-20 meteors/hour.









Happy hunting!!!!!!!!
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