If you like star showers, look into the Zoetermeer sky on the morning of Sunday, October 22. At that time you can see most of the shooting stars of the Orionid meteor shower.
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The best viewing time is Sunday around 6am. Several shooting stars can then be seen. Of course you can see this best in a dark place, such as the Bentwoud. In a dark location you can see four times as many meteors as in a light-polluted area, according to the website sky.observem.com.
Shooting stars in Zoetermeer
During the peak of the star shower you will see about 22 to 23 meteors per hour under clear skies. If there are a lot of clouds, you can see about 11 per hour. You don’t need any special equipment to observe the meteors.
Meteor shower Orionids
The Orionids are an annual meteor shower that appears in the sky from October 16 to 26. The radiant, the point where they appear to come from, is in the constellation Orion. They are caused by dust particles from Halley’s comet and travel through space at about 237,240 kilometers per hour.
What is a shooting star?
Shooting stars are flashes of light that occasionally appear in the starry sky. However, the flashes have nothing to do with stars. They are caused by space debris, often no larger than a grain of sand. That debris ends up in the Earth’s atmosphere approximately 100 kilometers above our heads. Due to the high speeds, the air at the front of such a grit particle is compressed, heated and made to glow. We see that as a flash.
Source: Heaven.observe.com