meteor shower

The Orionid meteor shower will reach its peak during daylight hours on Sunday October 21, 2007 according to U.S. clocks. The best time to watch this shower will be Sunday morning, and Monday morning, between the hours of midnight and dawn.
Our chart at left shows the radiant point in this annual shower – in the northern part of the famous constellation Orion. Orion is a large rectangle, with a distinctive row of three medium-bright stars in the middle. The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, is near Orion on the sky’s dome. This constellation is well up in the southeast after midnight now, and it’s high in the south before dawn. We will have much more to say about Orion in the months to come, because it’s one of winter’s most prominent constellations.
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