The never-before-seen meteor shower that promised to light up the sky from late Friday night to early Saturday morning was not so spectacular.

Astronomer's predicted that hundreds of meteors would be visible during the Camelopardalid meteor shower's peak between Friday 11 p.m. to Saturday 2 a.m., but stargazers could count the number of shooting stars on one hand.

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"We recorded about five meteors in total from 11 p.m. – 2 a.m.," photographer Dax Castro said in an email Saturday morning.

Castro was able to get a few photos of the meteor shower and shared the following three with News10:



The intensity of a meteor shower varies and depends on how much debris the Earth passes through.

Unlike annual showers such as the Perseids and Leonids that have been occurring for hundreds or thousands of years, Camelopardalid meteor shower occurred for the first time Friday night.

Meteor showers are named for the constellation from which the meteors seem to radiate. That point is known as the radiant, and radiant for the Camelopardalids was the constellation Camelopardalis (the giraffe).

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