when is the next substantial meteor shower that can be seen in southern California?
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The Lyrids will be showering Earth between Apr 15-Apr 28 with the peak being on April 22.  The best time to view them is around 3:00 A.M. and you can expect to see 5 to 20 per hour by looking towards the north.  Unfortunately, this year's Lyrids will be just days after the full moon so many meteors may be lost in the light being reflected from the moon.\n\nAs with all meteor showers, your best chance to see them is to be away from city lights.
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There are 10 significant meteorshowers every year. The next one this year is called the Lyrids and peaks around april 22. It generates a typcial rate of 15 meteors per hour. Wether they are very visible in New York City due to ligth pollution I cant really say.
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During most of the shower activity you'll be lucky to see one Leonid meteor every ten minutes, which can be an eternity standing out in the cold with your neck craned up. However, there is a good chance that Earth will pass through a particularly dense ribbon of comet dust for a few minutes at  4:45 UT on Sunday morning Nov 19. That's 11:45pm Saturday night in New York. Unfortunately it's too early for us on the west coast, because at 8:45 pm our time we are "looking off the back of the boat" as Earth sails through the rocks.  All the incoming meteors tend to hit above people facing the direction of Earth's orbit around the sun, which is the direction we start to face only after local midnite. A predicted rate for favorable locations (mostly western Europe or the Altantic Ocean) at 04:45 UT is 150 meteors per hour. Such figures presume a horizon to horizon view of clear sky and no light pollution. If I haven't discouraged you too much, and the Saturday night sky is clear for both of you, and you can stay awake after midnite, then by all means put on something really really warm and go outside and enjoy the stars, and the occasional Leonid meteor.  You'll get no interference from the moon this weekend.
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i just received email about it, so i'll just copy and paste it... \n\nEarth is about to pass through the dusty tail of Comet Thatcher, and this will cause the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on April 22nd, producing about 10 meteors per hour--modest, but pretty.  The best time to look is during the hours before sunrise on Saturday morning.  Go to a dark site away from city lights, if possible.\n\nThe Moon will also encounter the comet's tail on April 22nd, which raises an interesting possibility: Amateur astronomers may be able to spot flashes of light on the Moon when comet debris hits the lunar surface and explodes. All that's required is a backyard telescope and lots of patience.\n\nNote: This is a Northern Hemisphere shower.  South of the equator, observers will see very few Lyrids.  Southerners are, however, in an excellent position to observe Lyrid impacts on the Moon.  The Moon rises high in southern skies on April 22nd, in plain view of backyard telescopes.\n\nyou can visit the link below for observing tips and sky maps
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The next shower that appears with regularity is the Lyrids during April 16-25 (peaks Apr. 22). You should be able to see anywhere from 10-15 meteors per hour. Slightly closer but much less impressive is the Corona Australids during Mar. 14-18. \n\nTo see these showers look in the direction of the constellation that they are named after. Note: you need to spend a good 30 min in order to see just a handful. If there is a full moon then you will see less than if there was no moon out.
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Dec 31 3:12 (GMT) Greenwhich mean time was a new moon. That would be sometime in the afternoon on Dec 30 in CA.\n\nhttp://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TYPE/moonphase.html
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Shoemaker 1, tonight!\n\nVery comprehensive calender of comets below:\n\nhttp://www.aerith.net/comet/future-n.html\n\nBut for a simple answer, look at this website, it seems that today (7th June) we will see  the brilliantly named 102P/Shoemaker 1, which you can read about at the second of the two below links, and the third link is wikipedia's little info page on it (the important info is in the table at the right-hand side of the page)\n\nhttp://cometography.com/current_comets.html\nhttp://cometography.com/pcomets/102P.html\n\nSo get that telescope out! :-) Hope that helps
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Beijing, China will see a total solar eclipse on Saturday, September 1, 2035; Tokyo will just miss totality with 99.5% of the sun obscured.\n\nBefore Tokyo's next total solar eclipse, the city will see three annular solar eclipses (April 7, 2312, October 23, 2386, and August 4, 2502).  Then, on Saturday, August 11, 2762, the sun will be fully covered by the moon for an impressive 6 minutes and 14 seconds.
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The next solar eclipse in California, will be on May 20, 2012. The Sun in Los Angeles will be 85% covered by the Moon. The next one after that is another partial eclipse of 45% in L.A. on Oct 23, 2014. There will be a Total Solar Eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017, but it's path travels from the Pacific ocean, over Salem OR.,Casper WY., Lincoln NE., just missing Nashville TN.,and then goes over Columbia and Charleston SC., and then out over the Atlantic.\n\nThe maximum time that the Sun will be covered by the Moon is 2 minutes and 40 seconds over Western Kentucky.\n\nSorry, the next total solar eclipse in California (Northern California) is on Aug 12, 2045.  Boo Hoo!!!
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Seeing that we are nowhere near the Month of November... the next shower that appears with regularity is the Lyrids during April 16-25 (peaks Apr. 22). You should be able to see anywhere from 10-15 meteors per hour. Slightly closer but much less impressive is the Corona Australids during Mar. 14-18. \n\nTo see these showers look in the direction of the constellation that they are named after. Note: you need to spend a good 30 min in order to see just a handful. If there is a full moon then you will see less than if there was no moon out.
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Yes.  They are really meteors.  Showers of meteors occur a few times a year when the earth passes through places in it's orbit where meteors hang out.\nGo out at night and look up during these times and you'll see some too!\nHere's a calender for this year.
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plenty parties today if you live in california..\n\nhappy 4/20
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The meteors will hit the side of the Earth facing the constellation of Leo. That is why they are called the Leonids. You should be able to see meteors any time the constellation of Leo is above the horizon. Since Leo rises around midnight this time of year, that means you need to look after midnight. There is a prediction of a very brief flurry of more than the usual number of meteors to occur at a time before Leo has risen for people in the U.S. but Europe should get a good view. Us Americans may have to be content with just a few meteors per hour. But you never know, the predictions could be wrong!
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I do hope you mean when is the next shower visible from the NY area, not a meteor shower specifically *for* NY.  I mean, I knew New Yorkers were self-centered, but come on...  :)  <kidding>\n\nCheck out heavens-above.com - it has detailed info on showers, comets, asteroids, satellites, all kinds of stuff.
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Nope, nothing that we have found will be coming very near us on that date.  Just to give an update on the object the Braxton_Paul mentioned, 2004MN4 (now designated 99942 Apophis), has pretty much been put into the clear for the close approach in 2029.  It will come close, but unless something funny happens to the orbit (collision, unexpected outgassing phase etc), it will miss us.\n\nWhat we are trying to get a fix on now is the next close pass by this bad-boy: 2036.  We can't rule out an impact probablitity for that encounter yet.
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Leonid meteor shower tonight and tomorrow
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for this meteor shower after the midnight you can have a good observe but the best day for it is 18th of Nov. after 4am for UK.\nfor more information visit this website: http://www.IMO.net\ngood luck!