The Rare “Unicorn” Meteor Shower Will Be a Dud in SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Thursday night  (November 21, 2019) – if you’re looking at exactly the right time in a dark clear sky you’ll have a good chance of seeing a rich burst of meteors from the constellation Monoceros the Unicorn. At its peak, the shower might produce a burst of 100 meteors in just 15 minutes.

The only problem for those of us in the Bay Area? The radiant will be below the horizon so there’s not a great chance of seeing many meteors on the West Coast.

Unfortunately near and along the West Coast of both the U.S. and Canada, the radiant will be below the horizon, so the number of any visible meteors are likely to be few and far between at the peak (8:50 p.m. PST) – Space.com

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