Report your observations to be included in the “live Aurigids page”.

The Aurigid meteor shower usually produces annual activity at a maximum rate of 7-9 meteors per hour, over a period from late August until early September. However, on rare occasions in the past, this shower had a very short but intense peak, with rates jumping up to as many as 400 meteors per hour. A new outburst has been predicted for this year on September 1 at about 11:36 +/- 20 minutes UT, favouring locations at the west coast of the United States, Alaska and Hawaii. Apart from the far East, daylight in the whole of Asia and Europe will spoil the outburst there (but it is still encouraged to go out observing).

The NASA/Ames Research Center has more Aurigids information available.

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