Rockford Gets A Great View Of Twin Meteor Showers Wednesday Looking back over the first half of the year, 2021 has been chock-full of interesting celestial events that have been visible to Rockford and the Rockford area. We're not done yet. We started out 2021 with the Quadrantid meteor shower around January 3rd, then we moved on to January 8th with Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn clustering together for about 4 days. Next came the Venus-Jupiter Conjunction in February, followed by April's Lyrids Meteor Shower, May 26th total lunar eclipse, then it was June 10th's Annular Solar Eclipse (information gathered from Space.com and SmthsonianMag.com).