StarDate Susitna 10-18-2020, by Kathleen Fleming

October 19, 2020 |

In this StarDate Susitna, Kathleen talks about the Orionid meteor shower, the young moon passing Jupiter and Saturn, and other astro-stuff.

An Orionid meteor crosses the constellation of Orion itself, during the 2014 display of this annual meteor shower. Image credit: Pete Lawrence.
The radiant, or direction from which the Orionid meteors appear to come, around the date of maximum. They will appear in any part of the sky however. Image credit: Skymania.com