How to watch the final meteor shower of 2025

The radiant of Lyres, the constellation of Hercules, rises well before midnight, so meteors are visible all night, but they are most likely to be seen just before dawn, when the radiant reaches its highest point in the sky.

Eta amniotes (May)

Eta Aquariids are active approximately from mid-April to the end of May. This meteor shower does not have a sharp peak: high activity lasts for about a week, with activity peaking for one night in the first week of May.

In the Northern Hemisphere, Eta Aquarius is a moderately powerful shower that produces about 10 to 30 meteors per hour. According to the American Meteor Society, many of these meteorites produce stationary trains. Another thing that makes Eta Aquarius so special is that these meteorites are actually the remains of the famous Halley’s Comet.

The radiance of Eta Aquarius, the constellation Aquarius, appears very low in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere in April and will not begin to peak above the eastern horizon until after 2 a.m. local time. However, meteors from this shower Still visible Even when the radiation is just below the horizon.

South Delta Buckeyes (July-August)

Bucktails are active south of the Delta from mid-July to mid-to-late August, producing peak activity for about a week at the end of July. Unlike some other meteor showers, the Aquarids south of Delta do not have a sharp peak. Instead, the number of meteors per hour gradually increases and then slowly decreases during the period of activity.

Radiating Aquarius in the south of the delta is the constellation Aquarius.

Although these meteor showers typically produce fairly faint meteors and do not have continuous trains, these meteor showers are still worthwhile: You’ll be able to see about 25 meteors per hour in ideal viewing conditions.

Perseids (July – August)