Orionids in Taurus

History’s first identified periodic comet, Comet Halley (1P/Halley), returns to the internal Solar Map every 76 years or so. The well-liked comet made its remaining look to the naked-behold in 1986. Nonetheless dusty debris from Comet Halley will be considered raining by planet Earth’s skies twice a one year at some stage in two annual meteor showers, the Eta Aquarids in Would possibly perhaps presumably perhaps and the Orionids in October. In actuality, an uninteresting series of exposures captured these two shining meteors, vaporizing bits of Halley dirt, at some stage in the early morning hours of October 23 against a starry background along the Taurus molecular cloud. Impacting the atmosphere at about 66 kilometers per second their greenish streaks level attend to the bathe’s shapely appropriate north of Orion’s shining star Betelgeuse off the lower left aspect of the frame. The familiar Pleiades star cluster anchors the dusty celestial scene on the appropriate.