ENID, OK - The Leonid meteor shower will peak on the morning of November 18, 2024. The annual cosmic event will put on a light show you'll want to see. You might also get a glimpse on the evening of November 17.
For the best possible view, find a location away from the city lights and wait until after midnight. Look up and to the southeast sky for shooting stars. The Leonid shower typically averages 10 to 15 shooting stars per hour, occasionally, there could be more. A waning gibbous moon will interfere with Leonid meteors this year.
The famous Leonid meteor shower produced one of the greatest meteor storms in living memory. Rates were as high as thousands of meteors per minute during a 15-minute span on the morning of November 17, 1966. That night, Leonid meteors did, briefly, fall like rain.
