What meteor showers were there in 2008?

There are a few things to note about meteor showers:

Every time a comet returns to the vicinity of the Sun, it will strip off some material under the action of the solar wind and scatter it in space, and when the Earth meets this material, it will see a meteor appear in a radiating shape. It's called a meteor shower.

First of all, meteor showers are not like rain as expected, as long as the meteors come out of a radiant, they can be considered meteor showers. There are nearly 40 meteor showers that can be called meteor showers every year, and you only have to think about how many meteors you can see every year. The flow of meteor showers in the forecast refers to the number of meteors that can be seen at the zenith of an hour by a person with normal vision in the absence of lights, moonlight, clear weather, and no wind when the meteor shower is at its peak.

It's hard to get to this point, so the number of meteors you can actually see is much lower. The larger meteor showers each year include the Quadrant meteor shower around January 4, the Lyrid Lyrid meteor shower around April 22, the Perseid meteor shower on August 13-14, the Leonid meteor shower on November 17-18, and the Geminid meteor shower around December 14.

Second, it is difficult to predict meteor showers to the hour, because the mass of matter that forms meteor showers is very small, and the slightest gravitational disturbance will change the time to reach the Earth.

Again, you must not use a telescope for meteor showers, you can use the naked eye, and the use of telescopes will seriously affect the effect because of the small field of view received.

Finally, my advice is that if you're not a hobby of astronomy and just want to see meteor showers, don't look no further. In fact, this is largely the result of the fact that the reporter does not understand astronomy and hype. They thought the meteor showers were the same as the one in 2001.

But if you want to observe, you have to go to the field, at least to the suburbs. Because the lights in the city will interfere with the lights and you won't be able to see anything.

Frankly, there are no more meteor showers worth observing this year. The territoriality of meteor showers is very small, and a meteor shower can be observed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and half of the Southern Hemisphere. And the observation conditions are almost exactly the same throughout China.

The Draconid meteor shower on October 8 has only 2 flows this year, and even the theoretical hope is slim.

Late October is the Orionid meteor shower, but this is only a small meteor shower, and it is fortunate to be able to see single-digit meteors, and the maximum radiant on the 21st is too close to the moon, and it will end at the end of October.

November 7 is the maximum of the Leonid meteor shower, but it is far from the 2001 meteor shower.

November 8 is the Taurid meteor shower, and you can usually see four or five meteors per hour, which is not large, but the cycle is relatively stable.

December 14 is a big Geminid meteor shower, but it coincides with the Full Moon and is not worth watching.

By the way, meteor showers are meant to be observed with the naked eye, and telescopes can't do it.

Please refer to the following for notes on meteor showers: (it is best to read all the answers).

Major meteor showers:

Quadrantids (Sheptids) radiant rises northeast at midnight;

Lyrid meteor shower The radiant rises from the northeast at around 10 p.m.;

Aquariid meteor shower The meteor shower rises from the southeast around 3 o'clock;

Perseid meteor shower radiant rises from the northeast at 22 o'clock;

Auridids Radiant rises from the northeast at 23 o'clock;

Not sure, probably only a dozen) Leonid meteor shower, with a radiant rising from the east at midnight;

the Geminid meteor shower, with radiants appearing on the eastern horizon after dark;

Indefinitely, there may be more than a dozen) Ursid meteor shower radiant near the North Celestial Pole.

That time was on 11/19/09 from around 10:30 the day before. The Leonid meteor shower, that time was particularly good in scale.

At that time, the best thing to look at was two times around 12:09, and once it looked like an airplane had passed by, and there was a very wide bright band.

In 2001 there was a large Leonid meteor storm.

The Leonid meteor storm that arrived in the early morning of November 19, 2001 was the first meteor shower observed in China since DAO in the 20th century. Meteor bursts lasting five or six hours peaked at more than 10,000 per hour.

The Leonid meteor shower is a meteor shower with the constellation Leo as its radiant, which occurs in November every year and occurs about every 33 years, with a large explosion called a meteor storm. Due to the constraints of observation, China has not had the opportunity to meet the four meteor storms that have occurred since the 20th century. The reason why the meteor shower can be clearly observed in the early morning of November 19, 2001 is that the moon phase is the first quarter moon, and the new moon leaves early in the middle of the night, with less strong light interference, and the weather is fine, so that the meteor shower is very clear.

I've also seen it, when I was in elementary school, primary school in northern Jiangsu to read early, I got up when it was dark, it was very bright that night, maybe there was a moon, I thought it was late, humming and chirping to blame my mother for not calling me, my mother was too sleepy and didn't care about me, I left by myself, there was no one on the road, only to know that it was the middle of the night, I was walking, the sky from the top right to the bottom left suddenly crossed a lot of meteors at the same time, it was small, I didn't know what it was, I was scared, I didn't catch my breath for half a day, it was too shocking, It feels like the end of the world or a fairy tale world, and when you grow up, you know it's a meteor shower. Now I can occasionally see one or two in the sky at night, but it is far worse than that time, and I will never forget it.

I can't remember the specifics, probably in the winter between 1998 and 1999, when I was in junior high school, I found that the sky was full of meteor showers on the way to school at six o'clock in the morning, which was too spectacular, too beautiful, and too shocking, but unfortunately the organization was poor in that era and could not be recorded!

I've seen it, and I got up and waited at one o'clock in the evening, and it seemed that it was a particularly large scale at two o'clock in the evening. It should be 98 years. It's raining, it's so beautiful, and there are a few scattered pieces left at five or six o'clock in the morning.

It was a meteor shower in 2000, when I was in junior high school and running in the morning around 5-6 o'clock before dawn, and the meteor shower was very ......beautifulI don't know when I will still see the meteor shower.

In 2000, when I was a soldier, I happened to stand guard, there were many of them, sometimes two or three at a time, they crossed the night sky, which was very beautiful.

At that time in Haikou, a few friends gathered together to see about three o'clock in the morning, which was very spectacular, sometimes dozens of them crossed the sky at once.

It should be 99 years, I remember it was quite cold. Just graduated from high school.

I've seen it, it's so beautiful, and I'm excited to recall it now.

I have seen the meteor shower that time, Dayue in 1998 from November to December, around 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, in order to hold on to about two o'clock, but unfortunately there was no video recorder and no mobile phone at that time, there was no mobile phone and no photo recording function.

There are 6 major meteor showers a year, all visible to the naked eye, and the most recent one was upstairs.