This photo provided by NASA shows an Eta Aquarid meteor streaking over northern Georgia on April 29, 2012. B. Cooke/Marshall Space Flight Center/NASA via AP
NEW YORK—The Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley’s comet. But a bright moon will spoil the fun this year, making the display harder to glimpse.
The shower will peak Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Viewers from the Southern Hemisphere typically see 50 meteors per hour during the peak, but the interfering moon could cut that number by half. In the north, skywatchers will likely see fewer than 10 per hour.
