The Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak on the night of October 21\u201322, 2026, according to NASA's calendar. Active from October 2 to November 7, the shower comes from particles left behind by Halley's Comet.<\/p>\n
The best viewing period is after midnight until dawn. Find a safe place away from streetlights, allow your eyes to adapt to darkness and watch a broad area of the sky, not just the constellation Orion.<\/p>\n
NASA gives a guide of around 10\u201320 meteors per hour under dark skies. This is not a guaranteed count for any location: clouds, moonlight and light pollution affect visibility.<\/p>\n
For viewing around Veliko Tarnovo, check local cloud conditions shortly before going out. This astronomical forecast is not a weather forecast.<\/p>\n
NASA \u2014 Orionids, 2026 calendar<\/a><\/p>\n Illustrative photograph: Ryan Hutton \/ Unsplash. It does not depict the reported event or study. Cropped to 1200\u00d7675 px. Photographer<\/a> \u00b7 Unsplash licence<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak on the night of October 21\u201322, 2026, according to NASA's calendar. Active from October 2 to November 7, the shower comes from particles left behind by Halley's Comet.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[16,41],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nauka-i-tehnologii","category-polezno","tag-aktualno","tag-aktsenti-ot-denya"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}