The indexnightdatable to the day
Eta Aquariid meteor shower
Fires when peak May 5-6, pre-dawn radiant
Photograph Georgfotoart · CC BY-SA 4.0
The weekly build has been paused since October 6, 2026. The seasons and dates below still hold. Events are the ones the last finished build found, in the week of 2026-09-13, that have not happened yet — anything announced since is missing, and nothing here reflects this week's weather.
May. The notch is October.
Next: Thursday, May 6 — 199 days away, keyed to the shower's peak night
Dates worth protecting
- Thu, May 6, 2027in 7 months
Keyed to the shower's peak night. Moon dates come from a mean lunar month and can be a day out — check one before you commit a four-hour drive to it.
- Where
- dark-sky sites
- Drive
- 90 minutes from Lakeland
- In season
- May
- Certainty
- datable to the day
- Drone
- permit
From the field
A pre-dawn radiant, so this is the shower that costs a night's sleep rather than an evening.