{"id":236458,"date":"2026-05-04T06:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/a-bright-moon-may-dim-the-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-made-up-of-halleys-comet-debris"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:12:17","slug":"a-bright-moon-may-dim-the-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-made-up-of-halleys-comet-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/a-bright-moon-may-dim-the-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-made-up-of-halleys-comet-debris","title":{"rendered":"A bright moon may dim the Eta Aquarid meteor shower made up of Halley\u2019s comet debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-bright-moon-may-dim-the-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-made-up-of-halleys-comet-debris.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley\u2019s comet. But a bright moon will spoil the fun this year, making the display harder to glimpse.<\/p>\n<p>The shower will peak Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Viewers from the Southern Hemisphere typically see 50 meteors per hour during the peak, but the interfering moon could cut that number by half. In the north, skywatchers will likely see fewer than 10 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us in the Northern Hemisphere, it\u2019s not going to be as impressive,\u201d said Teri Gee, manager of the Barlow Planetarium in Wisconsin. \u201cThe farther south you are, the better you\u2019ll see it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley\u2019s comet. But a bright moon will spoil the fun this year, making the display harder to glimpse. The shower will peak Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Viewers from the Southern Hemisphere typically see 50 meteors per hour during the peak, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}