When and where to see one of the southern hemisphere's best meteor showers

Australian sky watchers will be treated to a meteor and planet show this weekend as long as the skies are clear.on Saturday and Sunday morning from anywhere in Australia a couple of hours before sunrise.

And this year they will be easy to spot with a stunning line-up of four bright planets pointing where to look, amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave says.You'll see Venus and Jupiter just above the eastern horizon. Each year Earth passes through a stream of debris laid down by Halley's Comet, with the meteors appearing from a point in the constellation of Aquarius in May and Orion in October .a better shower than the Orionids because we're passing more towards the middle of the debris stream, so we get much better numbers," Professor Horner says.

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