meteors
The Astronomical Society in Jeddah said that the globe is approaching the dusty remnants of Halley’s comet, the source of the annual “Eta Daloiyat” meteor shower, during the hours from midnight on Saturday (May 6) until before sunrise on Sunday (May 7) in the sky of the Kingdom and the Arab world.
And the Jeddah astronomer explained (on her Facebook page) that usually 10 to 20 meteors are seen per hour, and up to 50 meteors under ideal conditions, but it is unlikely that this number will be seen this year due to the moonlight that lights the sky.
She added that the annual meteor showers arise when the globe passes during its rotation around the sun, through dusty debris scattered along the orbits of comets in general, as it collides with the top of the Earth’s atmosphere and burns and appears to us as a strip of light, and by determining the speed and direction of those meteors, a path can be made for that. Dusty debris across the solar system and their source, in the case of the Eta Dalioid meteors, the source is Halley’s comet.
The Jeddah astronomer indicated that the best time to follow meteors is during the hours before sunrise, and that meteors can appear from any location in the dome of the sky, and all that the observer needs is a dark location far from the lights of cities, and that the sky is clear, and there is no need to use Special devices or star maps only the naked eye.
The Jeddah astronomer added that the human eye needs about 20 minutes to adapt to the darkness, and the observer must give himself at least an hour to see a meteor.
It is noteworthy that the naming of these meteors “Eta Dalios” came because they apparently set off near the dim star “Eta Aquarius”, but there is no relationship between the star and the meteors, as that star is 170 light years away from us, which is equivalent to trillions of miles, while the meteors burn At an altitude of 70 to 100 km above the Earth’s surface.
