Illustration of the core – The motion core of the Taurid Swarm passing progressing in time from box a) through h). a) Swarm inbound during April 2019. b) Swarm passing below the Earth. c),d),e) swarm passing beneath the Earth June 26, July 4, and July 14 respectively. f),g) Decreased brightness by August 1 and 7 respectively. h) All 100 m objects lost from visibility by August 24. d) and g) correspond to the midpoints of the best two observing opportunities. Object colours represent apparent brightess (magnitude) corresponding to the legend in box h). Magnitudes (m) increase as an object becomes dimmer, the dimmest visible star with the human eye is magnitude 6.5 being 500,000 times as bright as the brightest (m=21) objects and 50,000,000 times as bright as the dimmest (m=26) object. Objects which are too close to the direction of the Sun are coloured gray.
