10/20/2025 – 10/21/2025
In 2025, this shower coincides with moonless nights, hooray! Watch on the morning of October 21, starting after midnight through the wee hours before dawn.
These fast-moving meteors sometimes produce bright fireballs, which might be able to overcome a moonlit glare. If you trace these meteors backward, they seem to radiate from the Club of the famous constellation Orion the Hunter.
The Orionids is produced by dust grains left behind by comet Halley, which has been known and observed since ancient times.
