If you are somewhere with lovely, clear skies tonight, you should go out and try to catch the Orionid meteor shower. The new Moon was yesterday, so there is just the beginning of its waxing crescent tonight, giving us a great chance to see this beautiful meteor shower without too much distraction. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

If you want to make a whole evening of it, you could shortly after sunset by trying to catch Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) , which will be visible in the west for a few hours after the Sun has gone down. As the comet sets in the west, Orion will rise in the east, and the right shoulder of the celestial hunter – the location of Betelgeuse – is roughly the position from which these meteors appear to

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