Vietnam is about to catch meteor shower

Leonids meteor shower, one of the remarkable astronomical phenomena of the year, will be seen in Vietnam this weekend.

According to the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), Leonids meteor shower this year, although the number of meteor hours does not increase, but the unusual point is that this rain can reach the destination twice in about 4 hours. Sunday and 13 hours Wednesday next week in Hanoi time.

A Leonids meteor shower in Canada in 2001. (Photo: Space)

However, according to Dang Tuan Duy, Chairman of the HCMC Astronomical Club. HCM, the most suitable time to observe the meteor shower in Vietnam is from midnight Saturday to dawn on Sunday. That's when the Leo (lion), the starting point of a supernova, appears on the eastern horizon."Let your eyes cover the eastern sky up to the top of the viewer's head to see the most meteor stars , " Tuan Duy said.

When Leonids reached its peak, in places with ideal observation conditions, the number of stars could reach more than 20 tracks per hour."In recent years Leonids has weakened, but this meteor shower will appear with many bright meteor stars , " Tuan Duy said.

Last year, the bright moonlight near the constellation Leo destroyed the rain of Leonids. But this year, the moon almost did not affect the observer.

Leonid meteor showers appear in November every year when the earth passes through comet dust 55P / Tempel-Tuttle. In the past, Leonids had been described as a meteoric storm during the period of 1998-2002 when it reached several tens of thousands of meteor stars that appeared in an hour when the climax.