The Taurids Meteor Shower is nearly here, and although it is a fairly weak shower, the meteors that you see are likely to be good ones. With two streams of meteoroids to pass through, we should see a peak on the night of November 4th and then again on the night of the 11th. Since they are faily broad streams that we are passsing through, you may see the shower as a very long but weak one lasting most of this week.

The Taurids are rather slow moving but large meteors, so they tend to look slow and bright in the sky. This shower produces a fairly high proportion of fireballs. You never know when you might see a meteor that will be the talk of the next meeting, so get out and observe the Taurids!