{"id":44487,"date":"2015-10-10T19:04:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T23:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=44487"},"modified":"2015-10-10T19:04:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T23:04:31","slug":"orionids-meteor-shower-peaks-on-october-22-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/orionids-meteor-shower-peaks-on-october-22-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Orionids Meteor Shower Peaks On October 22, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orionids meteor shower will be reaching its peak this year on October 22, 2015, in the early morning hours — or, to put it another way, the meteor shower will be peaking late at night on October 21.<\/p>\n

The Orionids are usually best observed between the hours of around midnight and 4-5 am most years, so those interested in watching the peak this year are recommended to either find time late on the night of the 21st, or in the early morning pre-dawn hours of the 22nd.<\/p>\n

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2015 is set to be a pretty good year for the Orionid shower — as the Moon<\/a> will be setting before the late night fun really picks up — with the pre-dawn hours, in particular, likely making for a good time to observe the interplanetary comet or asteroid dust disintegrate in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

As the name implies, the meteors for this meteor shower will appear to be radiating out from the constellation of Orion the Hunter — which will be located in the south-southeast portion of the early morning’s sky in late October. An easy way to find the constellation is to locate the bright, reddish star Betelgeuse<\/a> (yes, the movie was named after the star) — which is a part of the constellation.<\/p>\n