Meteor Shower tonight??? 12-13-07?

Question

Is there a Meteor Shower tonight?? 12-13-07??? if so what time is the best time to view it?? Thank you for your time and Happy Holidays

Answer 1

This year, the Geminid meteor shower is active from about December 7 to 17, but the peak (the best time to see them) occurs the night of December 14 and the morning of December 15. The Geminid meteor shower has a broad peak, so you should see an excellent show all night (but you need to be at a dark site away from city lights).

The best viewing of any meteor shower is anytime after midnight. The Geminid shower is named for the constellation Gemini - that is where the "radiant" is, the point in the sky the meteors seem to originate from). But they can appear almost anywhere in the night sky, and often appear yellowish in hue. The radiant for this shower is overhead just after midnight.

Answer 2

Generally speaking, depending on your location, Gemini begins to come up above the east-northeast horizon right around the time evening twilight is coming to an end. So you might catch sight of a few early Geminids as soon as the sky gets dark.

There is a fair chance of perhaps catching sight of some "Earth-grazing" meteors. Earth grazers are long, bright shooting stars that streak overhead from a point near to even just below the horizon. Such meteors are so distinctive because they follow long paths nearly parallel to our atmosphere.

The Geminids begin to appear noticeably more numerous in the hours after 10 p.m. local time, because the shower's radiant is already fairly high in the eastern sky by then. The best views, however, come around 2 a.m., when their radiant point will be passing very nearly overhead.

Answer 3

Yes tonight. Any time should be OK. Go look now.

Answer 4

10 pm to 2 am!!

Answer 5

someone has been watching way too much Independence Day