Camelopardalids meteor shower

(Image courtesy Bill Longo)

It’s not very often that we get to experience a new meteor shower, but very early this coming Saturday morning we get that chance.

May 24, the Earth will travel through dust from periodic comet 209P/LINEAR.  How much dust is unclear.     Any shooting stars we see may appear to come from the faint constellation Camelopardalis in the north, so this event has been dubbed the “Camelopardalids”.  Camelopardalis is located between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia.