One would expect to see perhaps 5 random meteors per hour during the last hours before dawn from rural observing sites. During the evening hours perhaps 1 random meteor can be seen per hour. Rates seen from the Southern Hemisphere would now be slightly better than those seen in the Northern Hemisphere with perhaps 6 random meteors being seen per hour during the late morning hours and 2 per hour during the evening. A bright meteor with an apparent visual magnitude of -4 mag. or brighter. The magnitude of the faintest meteor visible can be different from the stellar limiting magnitude, particularly for photographic and video observations.
Visual observations assume about the same limiting magnitudes for stars and meteors.
The brightness of stars and other celestial objects. The scale assumes dark skies. The light phenomenon which results from the entry into the Earth's atmosphere of a solid particle from space. A solid object moving in interplanetary space, of a size considerably smaller than a asteroid and considerably larger than an atom or molecule. Stream of solid particles released from a parent body such as a comet or asteroid, moving on similar orbits.