If the weather cooperates you should be able to see the peak of the Orionid meteor shower.
Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desksaid that “the greatest number of meteors” will be seen on the mornings of Oct. 21 and 22 with Sunday morning being the best display.
They originate from the constellation Orion as the name suggests, but that’s not the only place they can be seen. It is best to watch the areas from 45 to 90 degrees from the radiant, or where they appear to come from,The meteors are best seen just before dawn with the radiant rising before midnight and the highest point around 2 a.m.
You could see between 10 and 20 meteors per hour while some of them leave trains behind them. Some may be bright fireballs, The meteors we see come from Hailey’s Comet, which orbits the sun every 76 years. The meters come from the dust particles that are expelled from the comet’s center and that are left behind. The Orionids come from Hailey’s inbound track and are seen annually. A second meteor shower that comes from Hailey’s Comet is the Eta Aquariids which happens in annually May.
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