Watch Live Online: Halley’s Comet Meteor Shower Tonight May 5th, 2014
Halley’s Comet meteor shower will peak late tonight and before dawn on Tuesday (May 5 and 6, 2014). NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center say up to 30 meteors per hour may be visible to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, with 60 meteors an hour possible in the Southern Hemisphere.
Below, you can watch the meteor shower webcasts live online, as it happens, via the online Slooh community telescope. The Slooh meteor shower webcast will begin at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 May 6 GMT).
According to a NASA Marshall center advisory, the best time to see meteors will actually between midnight and sunrise, with the peak of the shower occurring between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. your local time.
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