Under clear conditions, you can see several meteor showers a year.
But there is some uncertainty about one for tonight, but if that happens, the backyard astronomer says it will be a spectacular sight.
“It’s not like the usual meteor shower every year, like we have the Perseids. It is called the Tau Herculids and is indeed from a comet that disintegrated in 1995. It is suspected that it may pass through this cloud of debris from these particles that have disintegrated. It can produce over a thousand meteors an hour or produce zero. “Gary Boyle told us.
Estimates of its resilience are only about half an hour to an hour, “They are just projections, because this cloud of comet debris is moving through space and its orbits are changing from other planets. So it’s not a sure thing. If that happens, it won’t be all night, but there really will be something to see. “
Tau Heculids can be seen in clear skies around 23:00 Eastern time.
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