Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Expected Nov. 19

Put a big circle on your calendar around Saturday, Nov. 18. If that night is clear, bundle up warmly and head outside because you may be able to catch a glimpse of an intense, albeit brief display of Leonid meteors.

If you go out right now, you can see the Orionid meteor shower. It has been building over the last week or so. The peak is later this week on Saturday 10/22 after 1 AM when Orion rises (Friday night - Saturday morning). The later you stay up the better they get as Orion rises to the zenith. Here is a good page to show you where the radiant is. With no moon, they should be visible fairly well.

http://www.serve.com/wh6ef/comets/meteors/showers/orionids.html

This is leftovers from Halley's Comet.

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/061013_night_sky.html

The International Space Station (ISS) will also pass almost directly over Acworth this evening; from SW to NE. Visible at 7:54:29 PM to 7:59:09 PM with peak at 7:57:20 PM. We saw it early one morning last week and it was quite a sight. Hopefully this fog will burn off and it will start clearing later today.

November is going to be a good month for Nature's fireworks.

The Leonids being the major one, but there are others as well. More info and when & where to look here.

Leonid meteor shower nears peak

A brief surge of activity is expected begin around 11:45 p.m. ET Saturday, November 18.

We are excited to stay up and watch these tonight.

We taking the lawn chairs and blankets out to hopefully see something spectacular!

We went outside about 11:15p and stayed out until Midnight....did not see much but a few little streaks...very faint.

But the girls got to observe the fact that the stars move across the sky and they thought that was neat.

I went out at 11:30 stayed till 12:15 and just saw a few streaks as well. Bet they picked up when I went in.

Last big meteor shower it was just me and Shark. It was great. So the ladies got interested and we got the whole family in the back yard at 12:15am. All bundled up. 9-yr-old Shark couldn't stay awake. And we saw maybe one streak. Bummer.

5-yr-old Guppy had a great attitude when I told her I was sorry we didn't see more of the meteor shower. She said "that's okay Daddy. The stars in the sky were pretty to look at."

So it turned out just fine after all.

I was outside an entire hour and didn't see squat!

Was at a friend's house in woodstock, we all broke away from the warm indoors at 11:30 and stood in the garden for 30 minutes and didn't see a thing. shame really, would have been cool to see them.