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 2011 Meteor Shower Schedule
Posted January 20, 2011
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from Carole Cherry of Planetary Calendars
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So many of us like this information that I thought I'd post it here for all. Planetary Calendars will also include this information starting with the 2012 edition - yay! This info comes courtesy of the McDonald Observatory:

Name Date of Peak Moon
Quadrantids night of January 3 New
Lyrids night of April 21 Rises after midnight
Aquarids night of May 5 Sets in early evening
Perseids night of August 13 Full
Draconids night of October 8 Sets around midnight
Orionids night of October 21 Rises after midnight
Leonids night of November 17 Rises around midnight
Geminids night of December 13 Just past full

For the best view you want to be looking at the constellation named - Perseid Meteor Showers seem to be coming from the constellation Perseus. Here's a link to Sky Maps. You can get a free map or make a donation if you scroll down a bit.

There's another great link for this kind of stuff: Derrick Pitts Monthly Sky Talk (currently a part of Kid's Corner and totally worth it). Pitts is the head astronomer at the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia - we used to love to go on his quarterly Sky Tours and he'd tell us all the fun things you can see in the sky, what time to look, which direction - he's awesome!

 
 
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