North Taurid meteor shower branch also produces slow-moving meteors with some spectacular fireballs. Great opportunity for DSLR camera photographers to find a dark sky spot and show us some fantastic fireball pictures.
20 October to 10 December
A month later, after the South Taurid branch peaked, the Earth is passing through secondary debris stream after the same comet 2P/Encke.
Both shower streams have a plateau-like peak. Don't expect a sharp rise in meteors like with other meteor showers.
The Earth passes through Taurid shower streams. Because they are spread out and thin, we have an extremely long shower activity: the South Taurids (10 September - 20 November) and the North Taurids (20 October – 10 December).
Mary McIntyre talks you through some professional tips to help you take better meteor photographs, and best of all, you don't need a high-end camera to do it.
The debris stream from Swift-Tuttle is quite widely dispersed so the Perseid Meteor Shower is active from 17th July until 24th August, with the peak occurring overnight on 12th / 13th August.
August gives us the opportunity to witness another spectacle in the night skies, not a comet this time, but a meteor shower, in this instance, the Perseid Meteor Shower, which begins in late July but peaks on the 11th, 12th and 13th of August.
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