The best ways to watch the shower Geminid Meteor
The night sky is about to put a great show.
On Wednesday, the sky will turn on with a dazzling display in the form of the shower Geminid Meteor, a meteor shower caused by the object 3200 phaethon, an asteroid with a "rock comet" orbit that annuity through the sky. As it does, in a dark and moonless night, the earth is plunged with 50 to 120 meteors on time, and with the parent object of Geminids so close this year, you can possibly wait even more. Like withThe recent supermoon, the rare and wonderful phenomenon is the one you will not want to miss, so here's all you need to know to experiment correctly. And for more amusing trivia, here is here20 predictions that are not carried out in 2017.
1 Get out of town
The glare of the lights of the city will make it difficult to see the meteors correctly. It is therefore a great excuse to escape the cool darkness of the country. It could be a little too cold to camp, but if you prepare yourself correctly, it's worth it. The Geminids are one of the only two major meteor showers that are not from a comet and many people consider them more dazzling than the Meteor Perseid shower that rolls all the ages.
2 Stay late
The shower should plunder around 2 o'clock in the morning, when its radiant point appears the highest in the sky. The time is the same not what counts which time zone you are in. The "gems", because the warned stargazers call them, will be particularly visible in the northern hemisphere, although the southern hemisphere can get them too.
3 Find an open sky
A field or campsite will give you the best view of this heavenly wonder. According toShower calendar meteor From the International Meteor Organization (IMO), this year's observation conditions are "almost optimal" because of a crescent moon that will only rise at 3:30.
4 Watch for at least one hour
Meteors tend to fall into gusts rather than continuously, so do not give up if you have not seen any immediately. In addition, it can take up to 20 minutes for your eyes to adapt to the black, it is worthwhile to wait. If you have trouble finding it, look at the Gemini constellation, from which the shower gets its name, located just above and to the right of the Orion belt.
5 Keep an eye on the moon before dawn
The crescent of Waning Crescent Moon will be sweeping Jupiter and March to the east just before dawn, it is worthwhile to keep an eye in case you manage to get two natural phenomena for the price! And if everything else fails and you do not do it outside, you can always catch theVirtual telescope project Livestream of the shower Geminid Meteor from 17h tonight.
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