zenithal

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The quality of the display is measured by how many meteors are visible every hour - known as the zenithal hourly rate.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

The zenithal hourly rate could be close to 120 meteors per hour, though this peak lasts only a couple of hours.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2025

The zenithal hourly rate is 10-20 meteors per hour.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2024

A thick fog came down on us, with zenithal aurora borealis, the electric action of which threw out every compass, standard and otherwise, on board.

From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)

Its transcendental aspirations—still unconsciously based on the geocentric view of things, a zenithal paradise, a nadiral hell—were as foreign to his own as if they had been the dreams of people on another planet.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas