{"id":522,"date":"2014-05-06T04:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T04:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/wp\/2014\/05\/06\/eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-tuesday-may-6-2014-around-4am\/"},"modified":"2014-05-06T04:43:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T04:43:20","slug":"eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-tuesday-may-6-2014-around-4am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower Tuesday May 6 2014 around 4am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower<\/strong> should peak Tuesday morning, the 6th of May at 07:00 Universal Time (or midnight Pacific Daylight Savings Time, or 1am Mountain Saving Time), but the best viewing times (due to the Moon and a low Eastern radiant) will a few hours before dawn Tuesday morning, around 4am to 5am.<\/p>\n<p>At the peak, up to 55 meteors could be seen each hour.  They&#8217;re pretty fast, at 66km\/second, often bright with very long paths, and leave persistent glowing trails.<\/p>\n<p>The source of the meteors is debris from <strong>Halley&#8217;s Comet.<\/strong>  The Comet&#8217;s orbital path contains dust particles and ice (thinned out in spots by Jupiter).  The Earth crosses Halley&#8217;s orbital path twice each year.  In May we see it as the Eta Aquariid meteor shower and in October the Orionids. <\/p>\n<p>The Eta Aquariids will be best seen early Tuesday morning. The Moon will have set by then, so it will be seen under a dark sky.  The radiant is low in the Eastern sky, in Aquarius, which rises around 4am.  So over half of the meteors will be unseen below the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>If you miss the peak, they will continue to fall all week, slowly tapering off, with above 30 meteors\/hr lasting from May 3 to Saturday May 10 2014. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the International Meteor Organization Site at http:\/\/www.imo.net\/calendar\/2014#eta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower should peak Tuesday morning, the 6th of May at 07:00 Universal Time (or midnight Pacific Daylight Savings Time, or 1am Mountain Saving Time), but the best viewing times (due to the Moon and a low Eastern radiant) will a few hours before dawn Tuesday morning, around 4am to 5am. At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/?p=522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower Tuesday May 6 2014 around 4am&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}