Atlas Comet: Why this weekend is the best time to see comets and meteor showers

PHILADELPHIA – This weekend would be a good time to look for a comet in the night sky.

The weather agency says we will have clear skies this weekend and the best time to look for the comet is just after dark.

Sunset is around 6:15pm these days and it’s pretty dark by 7pm

The early evening sky will remain very dark this weekend as the moon rises later and later. Look for it to appear after 7pm on Saturday and after 8pm on Sunday.

It turns out that only the full moon shines all night. At other times of the night, the moon rises at different times.

With darker skies, it’s easier to find the comet in your western sky and photograph it using your phone’s night vision settings.

If you use night mode, i.e. shoot slowly over a period of three to ten seconds, the comet’s tail will show up better in your image.

If you’re not sure how to turn on the night setting, you can often find guides like this one for iPhone when you google it.

Once the moon rises, it remains in the sky for the rest of the night and into the morning sky, even after the sun has risen.

The moon is still very large and bright and therefore it will be more difficult to see the annual meteor shower in October.

Still, this weekend is a good time to look for it.

This meteor shower is caused by a comet, but not the one we see in the early evening sky.

It is caused by the dust left in space by Halley’s Comet. This comet will be visible in our sky again in 2061.

Meanwhile, every year, when Earth hits the spot where Halley’s Comet passed through our part of space, some of the comet’s dust, often the size of grains of sand, falls to Earth.

This rock dust moves the air high up in our sky and gives it a little more energy. The air there is not designed to store additional energy, so it releases it as light. The light we see is a shooting star.

When you see a meteor, nothing actually burns.

The dust, which causes the air to emit flashes of light, becomes smaller and smaller as it falls. At some point it becomes so small that you can’t even see it anymore. This is why we don’t get meteor shower souvenirs on the farm.

The best time to view the meteor shower is between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. Sunday and Monday morning. Then the number of shooting stars reaches its peak.

We have the opportunity to observe a shooting star about once or twice every half hour. Look east, the same part of your sky where the sun rises.

There you will see a cluster of stars known as Orion. Since the meteors originate there, the shooting star round in October is named after them. It’s called the Orionid meteor shower.