The maximum point is expected on the night of May 7-8. Then about ten to 20 shooting stars can be seen per hour. − Icon image: Daniel Meyer
A large number of shooting stars can now be seen in the night sky. The cause is comet Dem 1P/Halley, which is also called Halley’s comet. Most of the shooting stars can be seen this weekend.
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According to TV lore program “Galileo” (ProSieben), the stars in the meteor shower on the Eta Aquariids (or “Aquarids”) fall from April 19 to May 28 — and peaks the first weekend in May.
Twice a year – in October and May – Earth approaches the orbit of Comet Dem 1P/Halley, which is also called Halley’s Comet. Then there are always plenty of shooting stars to be seen. According to Hessisch-Niedersächsisch-Allgemeine (HNA), the peak is expected in 2023 on the night of May 7-8. About ten to 20 shooting stars can be seen every hour.
The full moon and overcast weather made visibility difficult
However, the viewing of shooting stars is not always optimal everywhere: on the one hand, this is due to the full moon of May 5, which even a few days later still illuminates several shooting stars due to its brightness. On the other hand, most of them could be seen at three in the morning – and it was less than two hours before dawn.
By the way, a shooting star collides with the outer layers of the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of about 240 thousand kilometers per hour. “It took less than a dozen seconds to get from Munich to Hamburg with the opportunity to climb a meteorite,” the team accounts from the TV show Galileo.
2023-05-06 20:07:24
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