{"id":384498,"date":"2025-11-17T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384498\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:01:11","slug":"best-viewing-tips-and-times-for-stargazers-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384498\/","title":{"rendered":"Best viewing tips and times for stargazers :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Leonid meteor shower peaks early this week with best views in the hours before sunrise Monday, Nov. 17.\u00a0 Some meteors may also be visible early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Named for the constellation Leo, meteors appear to be originated from near the lion&#8217;s head. The easiest way to find Leo is to look for the backwards question mark in the eastern sky.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 edition of the Leonids are aded by the\u00a0waning crescent moon, just 11% illuminated,<\/p>\n<p>The Leonid meteor shower is created as Earth pass through the trail of tiny debris left behind by comet\u00a055P\/Tempel-Tuttle as it passes through our part of the solar system every 33 years. \u00a0Even the brightest meteor of this, or other showers, is no bigger than a grain of rice.<\/p>\n<p>While there have been outbursts as recently as 2002 where hundreds of meteors per hour have been visible, a handful of meteors each hour at most is expected this year. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The meteors return in 2031 and 2064 could fuel future impressive shows though.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMeteor viewing tips<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Give your eyes at least 10-15 minutes to adjust to the darkness, you&#8217;ll be amazed at how many more stars become visible<\/li>\n<li>Meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, so look to the darkest part.  Even if that&#8217;s not near the constellation Leo.<\/li>\n<li>Leave your phone inside, each time you look at it, that 10-15 minutes starts over<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Leonids are a relatively minor shower with just a handful of meteors expected each hour.<\/p>\n<p>The next major meteor shower is the Geminids which will peak the night of Saturday December 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leonid meteor shower peaks early this week with best views in the hours before sunrise Monday, Nov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":384499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[19773,159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-384498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-meteor-shower","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-space","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115563284640923207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384498","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=384498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}