Orionid meteor shower, sparked by Halley's comet, to peak Friday night
Autumn's best meteor shower is about to create celestial sparks in the night sky just in time for the weekend. The Orionids will peak on Friday night into the early hours of Saturday morning with as many as 20 shooting stars per hour, the strongest meteor shower since the Perseids in mid-August. Meteors will start to appear around 10 p.m., local time, but will be seen in greatest numbers between 1 a.m. and dawn, according to the American Meteor Society. This is the time when the shower's radiant