where do you find out about the sightings of shooting stars?

Answer 1

Shooting stars can happen at any time but you can see lots of them during the meteor showers that happen throughout the year. There are several recurring meteor showers that occur as earth passes through the debris trails left by comets. Times for these can be predicted fairly well and are published in astronomy magazines or the Farmers Almanac.

The last shower, the Perseids, was on August 12. See this website for a list of all of them for 2006. http://skytonight.com/observing/objects/meteors/3306006.html?page=1&c=y

Finishing out the year the Orionids peak on October 22, the Leonids peak on November 18 and the Geminids will peak on December 14.

Answer 2

Try http://comets.amsmeteors.org/

And in the site, look at the Calendar for meteors.

Also, has dates for comets, but don't get too excited unless a comet is predicted to get brighter than about magnitude 4. The higher the magnitude number, the dimmer the object. Most of the time, the comets predicted on the site are telescope objects, but keep track of the site from time to time. You might get a surprise.

PS

If you go to a dark place, away from the city, and if you are patient, you can see meteors on any night of the year.

If you take a camp bed and lay on it for an hour or so, you are likely to see one or more stray meteors. You will also see quite a few satellites.

It has to be a dark place, and no big moon in the sky.

Answer 3

I saw several shooting stars last night

they are very very common

every night, many people, in many places see shooting stars

there cannot be any sort of catalogue of sitings as they are so common and diverse

anybody who lives away from the light pollution of cities on a clear night that isn't too muggy, stands a pretty good chance of seeing a shooting star with a couple hours of gazing

Answer 4

Here's a web site dedicated to watching meteors.

http://www.meteorobs.org/
 

Answer 5

I saw one once, or a few. Check out the showers.

Answer 6

the internet