2023-05-03 07:27:32
The Qatar Calendar House announced that residents of the northern hemisphere, including residents of the State of Qatar, will have a date with seeing and monitoring the Eta Aquarius meteor shower for this year, as it will reach its climax the evening following tomorrow, Friday, Shawwal 15, 1444 AH, corresponding to May 5, 2023 AD, and will extend until Dawn on Saturday, May 6, 2023 AD.
Dr. Bashir Marzouk (an astronomer at the Qatar Calendar House) stated that the Eta Aquarius meteor shower is one of the distinctive meteor showers, because the rate of its fall in the sky at its peak reaches 50 meteors per hour, according to the estimation of astronomers who specialize in monitoring meteors, and it is active annually during the extended period. From April 19 to May 28 of each year, but it peaks between the fifth and sixth of May each year.
What distinguishes meteor showers is that monitoring them only needs a place far from environmental and light pollution, and therefore the residents of the State of Qatar will be able to monitor and see them without the need for astronomical devices or telescopes, as they can see and monitor them with the naked eye, starting from Friday evening until the dawn of Saturday, by looking in the direction of The southeastern horizon of the sky of the State of Qatar from midnight until dawn of the next day. Modern digital cameras can be used to obtain images of it, taking into account the increase in exposure time during imaging to obtain distinctive images of Eta Aquarius meteors.
Dr. Bashir Marzouk added that the famous “Halley” comet is the source of the occurrence of the Eta Aquarius meteor shower, when the Earth moves in its orbit around the sun and passes near the dust grains left by the comet during the month of May of each year, so those grains intersect with the earth’s atmosphere, and occur A flash seen in the sky of the globe, knowing that the phenomenon of meteors in general occurs as a result of the passage of the earth near the minute residues and dust grains left by particles of comets.
It is noteworthy that the famous Halley comet visits Earth every 76 years (that is, it can be observed from the surface of the Earth every 76 years), the last of which was 1986 AD, while its next visit to Earth will be during the year 2062 AD.
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