The debris of Comet Halley will light up Earth's atmosphere throughout October
The meteors are created when Comet Halley returns to the inner solar system and sheds ice and dust. Earth passes through this dust trail every year and the particles enter the atmosphere disintegrating and creating a natural light show. Comet Halley orbits the sun roughly once every 76 years with its last visible close passage in 1986.
This is when the most meteors will be visible as the Earth's rotation is turning the city to face the direction from which the meteors approach Earth. This increases the number of meteors that move vertically downwards producing short trails close to the radiant point. At the peak of the Orionids sky watchers in an ideal region with a clear, dark, and dry viewing area could see up to 15 meteors per hour. It is likely in actual conditions fewer meteors than this will be visible.
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