Don’t Miss These Skywatch Wonders in October 2025
The Draconid meteor shower peaks around October 8, 2025, but a full Moon on October 6–7 will wash out most meteors, making outbursts of hundreds to thousands per hour unlikely, and its parent comet is 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. The Orionids peak on the nights of October 21–22, 2025, producing about 20 meteors per hour under dark skies from Halley’s Comet debris, with a near-new Moon (~2% illumination) aiding viewing. The Harvest Moon and first Harvest Supermoon of 2025 occurs on October 6, 2025, when the full Moon reaches peak fullness at 11:47 p.m. EDT near its perigee. Saturn remains a prominent evening