Astronomy Resources - Taking a Meteor Shower

The summer months are often the most popular for skygazing. Mild weather combined with a host of appealing astronomical events tends to attract both amateur and professional astronomers to look skyward. One of the more brilliant and flashy events to observe is a meteor shower. As children, many of us remember watching a falling star shoot across the sky. Little did we know that what we were actually observing was a piece of space debris known as a\u27 \u27meteor.\u27\u27 Meteors may appear at any time and from any direction, but most of the visible meteors viewed each year are parts of defined meteor showers