I would like to encourage anyone outside on the night of October the 8 to look to the northern skies. The prediction for October 8 Draconid meteor storm favors all of Europe, especially Finland and Sweden, then North Africa and also at the Middle East will seen some. However a bright moon will interfere.There has been announced in 2011 that the annual Draconid meteor shower might produce a brief meteor storm of 1,000 meteors per hour on October 8, 2011.
The Draconids have surprised us before, and they may do so again.
According to EarthSky Journal the Draconid meteor shower has produced storms in the past. In 1933 and 1946, the Draconids produced meteor storms, where shooting stars were produced at rates of 10,000 per hour or even more. Other less dramatic outbursts — where the meteor counts nonetheless ran into the hundreds per hour — occurred in 1952, 1985, and 1998. Normally, though, the Draconids are a weak shower producing perhaps 10 meteors per hour, tells EartSky.
An upper photo by Tony Cook.
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