--- title: See the Orionid Meteor Shower on This Live Stream description: Watch live on Oct. 21 as 20 meteors per hour light up the night sky as part of the Orionid Meteor Shower. canonical: https://time.com/3528768/orionid-meteor-shower-live/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-21T18:52:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:55:16.642Z article:section: Science og:title: LIVE STREAM: Watch the Orionid Meteor Shower og:description: The event starts at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT og:url: https://time.com/3528768/orionid-meteor-shower-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8f0490a88292d81/698690c4cd6848c7bc094cd6/meteor-shower.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Perseid meteors above the al-Azraq desert, 70 km (45 miles) east of Amman, on Aug. 13, 2002. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: LIVE STREAM: Watch the Orionid Meteor Shower twitter:description: The event starts at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8f0490a88292d81/698690c4cd6848c7bc094cd6/meteor-shower.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Missed Tuesday Night's Orionid Meteor Shower? Watch Here  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 21, 2014 6:52 PM UTC  Perseid meteors above the al-Azraq desert, 70 km (45 miles) east of Amman, on Aug. 13, 2002. Perseid meteors above the al-Azraq desert, 70 km (45 miles) east of Amman, on Aug. 13, 2002.Ali Jarekji—Reuters  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Oct 21, 2014 6:52 PM UTC The Orionid Meteor Shower, a spectacle that occurs each year as the earth moves through debris left behind by a comet, gave skywatchers quite a show Tuesday night. “Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley’s Comet, the source of the Orionids,” [said Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office](http://www.nasa.gov/watchtheskies/orionid-meteor-shower-oct2014.html#.VEae2ovF-GY) in a press release before the event. “Bits of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us a couple dozen of meteors per hour.” While this shower may not be the strongest of the year, the position of nearby stars makes it one of the best to watch, Cooke added. The show was livestreamed from the [Slooh Community Observatory](slooh.com) beginning at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT, hosted by expert astronomer Bob Berman. Miss the event? Watch it here. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3528768/orionid-meteor-shower-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3528768/orionid-meteor-shower-live/"},"headline":"Missed Tuesday Night's Orionid Meteor Shower? Watch Here","datePublished":"2014-10-21T18:52:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:55:16.642Z","description":"A shower of 20 meteors-per-hour began Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET","url":"https://time.com/3528768/orionid-meteor-shower-live/","keywords":["Space","astronomy","stars","Telescope","live stream"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8f0490a88292d81/698690c4cd6848c7bc094cd6/meteor-shower.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8f0490a88292d81/698690c4cd6848c7bc094cd6/meteor-shower.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Perseid meteors above the al-Azraq desert, 70 km (45 miles) east of Amman, on Aug. 13, 2002.","caption":"Perseid meteors above the al-Azraq desert, 70 km (45 miles) east of Amman, on Aug. 13, 2002.","creditText":"Ali Jarekji—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3528768/orionid-meteor-shower-live/","name":"Missed Tuesday Night's Orionid Meteor Shower? Watch Here"}}]}] ```