Meteor shower guides

Annual activity, radiant directions and the conditions that affect what you see.

Draconids

An October shower with an evening opportunity and highly variable activity.

A fast-moving May shower often better placed from southern tropical latitudes.

A December shower that can offer an evening opportunity where Gemini rises well.

A November shower famous for rare storms, without a promise that an ordinary year will produce one.

An April shower whose northern radiant and annual timing need a local dawn check.

An October shower from Halley-related material, useful to plan around the rising radiant.

An August shower with a northern radiant and strong dependence on local darkness and moonlight.

A northern January shower with a short maximum, making the year-specific timing important.

A late-July shower whose southerly radiant rewards a carefully chosen dark window.

A December northern shower whose high-latitude radiant limits southern viewing.