Experts make their predictions.
First-hand account of the 1833 Leonid Meteor Shower . Elder Samuel Rogers. The bright star shining about 20 deg. above, and to the south of Venus is Regulus , the brightest star in the constellation Leo. Copyright 1998, Lorenzo Lovato, all rights reserved. The Leonid meteor shower takes place every year around November 17 when Earth passes close to the orbit of comet Tempel-Tuttle.