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WQAD-TV in SeattleMoline, IL alerts us that
The annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower is usually active between April 19 and May 28. This year, it will peak around May 5 or May 6.
The best time to view the shower will be during the early morning of May 6, just before dawn [...]
The article goes on to explain that the meteors originate from Halley's Comet, which will next approach Earth in 2061. Mark your calendars!
further information:
Wikipedia article
additional coverage:
- KVOA-TV
- International Business Times Australia
- The Monitor Daily
- Sky & Telescope (N.B. this is from 2016)
- Market Business News (N.B. this is from 2016)
[Update: Corrected station's location: WQAD is in Moline, IL (not Seattle) --martyb]
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(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday May 05 2017, @03:40AM (2 children)
I found a Sky & Telescope page from January [skyandtelescope.com] which says the peak should be around "2:00 UT on May 6th." It also seems to suggest looking "a couple of hours before dawn" around the time that the Moon will set.
The viewing is expected to be better from the Southern Hemisphere, and the International Business Times Australia page linked from the summary has instructions for major cities in Australia.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday May 05 2017, @05:06AM (1 child)
Is UT the same as UTC, or some specific time zone?
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(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday May 05 2017, @05:37AM
For most common and legal-trade purposes, the fractional second difference between UTC and UT (GMT) is inconsequentially small.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC [wikipedia.org]
This meteor bombardment began around 20 April and is expected to last until around 28 May; one ought to devote around an hour to watching, one of the linked articles advised. You see that the advice about when to look is inexact. So UT and UTC are interchangeable for the purposes of this discussion. Sorry for the confusion.