{"id":287221,"date":"2025-10-08T18:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/287221\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T18:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:53:14","slug":"heres-where-to-see-the-draconid-meteor-shower-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/287221\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Where to See the Draconid Meteor Shower in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"Image showing the Perseid Meteor Shower and stars in a night sky above Chicago\" width=\"1024\" height=\"553\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Perseid-Meteor-shower-1024x553.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tImage from Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>    Save<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t get a chance to admire the Harvest Moon on Monday due to the rain and cloud cover, there\u2019s no need to fret<b>\u2014another celestial spectacle will light up the Chicago skies this week.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Draconid meteor shower<\/strong> is set to peak tonight,<strong> October 8,<\/strong> making for some incredible stargazing. The meteor shower is an annual occurrence according to NASA, typically falling between October 6th and 10th.<\/p>\n<p> All about the Draconids <\/p>\n<p>The so-called shooting stars are actually <strong>falling debris from the 21P Giacobini-Zinner comet<\/strong> which orbits earth.<\/p>\n<p>The meteors also <strong>originate from the constellation Draco,<\/strong> hence the name Draconid. Stargazers can expect to see as many as ten 10 meteors per hour during the event.<\/p>\n<p> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53392\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"The Geminids meteor shower is one of the brightest of the year\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Geminids.jpg\"\/>Photo\/Shutterstock <\/p>\n<p>In recent times, the Draconid shower has not been especially bright, according to the BBC. The <strong>most significant displays<\/strong> of the phenomenon <strong>occurred in 1933 and 1946.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Where to watch in Chicago <\/p>\n<p>This year, because the Draconids coincide with the <strong>Harvest Moon,<\/strong> the meteor shower will <strong>likely be less visible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, the biggest obstacle when it comes to stargazing is cloud cover<b>\u2014and luckily for Chicagoans, tonight is supposed to be a a crystal clear night.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For the best chance at admiring the Draconids, stargazers should head to an area with minimal light pollution. Lakefront spots like <strong>Northerly Island<\/strong> and the <strong>Montrose Moonrise Observation Point<\/strong> provide unobstructed views of the night sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image from Shutterstock Save If you didn\u2019t get a chance to admire the Harvest Moon on Monday due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-287221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115340063834799023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}