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Geminid meteor shower 2020 peaks Sunday night
Posted by Bruce McClure and Deborah Byrd in Astronomy Essentials | December 13, 2020
See the Geminid meteor shower – always a highlight of the meteor year – Sunday evening until Monday’s dawn. The peak time as seen from around the globe is centered on 2 a.m. With no moon, the shower is expected to be grand this year!
The Geminid meteor shower – always a highlight of the meteor year – is expected to peak in 2020 on the night of December 13-14 (Sunday evening until dawn Monday). This year’s shower should be grand! The Geminids are typically a very reliable shower if you watch at the best time of night, centered on about 2 a.m. for all parts of the globe, and if you watch in a dark sky. And this year there’s no moon to ruin the shower. The meteors tend to be bold, white and quick. This shower favors Earth’s Northern Hemisphere, but it’s visible from the Southern Hemisphere, too. The curious rock comet called 3200 Phaethon is the parent body of this shower.
On a dark night, near the peak, you can often catch 50 or more meteors per hour. On an optimum night for the Geminids, it’s possible to see 150 meteors per hour … which might happen this year, given the moon-free skies accompanying this year’s Geminid meteor shower. New moon falls on December 14, 2020. On the mornings before that date, you’ll see a waning crescent moon. And – on December 11, 12 and 13, 2020 – after a night of meteor-watching, the slender lunar crescent and dazzling planet Venus will rise into your eastern sky at or near dawn.
What a way to cap a night of meteor-watching!
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-geminid-meteor-shower
Got to see these meteors on Saturday night/Sunday morning.
Woke up and watched them out the guest bedroom window. Too cold for me to go outside.
It was spectacular!
Time for me to go to bed and get refreshed.
G'nite frens.
Top 'o' the morning to you friends!
I was in Africa in an area w/o grid power for a couple of months. They would run the generators for a couple of hours 2 or 3 times a day to keep the fridge and freezer cold and stayed out of them when power was down. It was very hot where I was and they would run from ~10AM-1PM and from ~6PM-11PM.
Once you get over the idea that electricity has to be on all the time it's easy to work around the down intervals.
Off to irl. Got Dr appt and workfagging.