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Leonids radiation is Leo’s constellation, which rises around midnight with local time and is the highest in the sky around dawn.
Gemini (December)
Gemini is active from December 4 to December 17, peaking overnight from December 13 to December 14th. They have a sharp roof, so the 13th night is the best time to go to the sky.
Gemini is the most spectacular meteor shower of the year. In addition to boasting up to 120 or even 150 meteors per hour during its peak, this meteor shower is also the brightest and most vibrant of the year.
Gemini are bright, slow meteors that often have yellow tones, but they can be a range of other colors, including green, blue, white, red or orange. And unlike most meteors, which are caused by comet waste, twins are the residual of an asteroid.
The night that the roof of Gemids, their radiant, the constellation twins, will be above the horizon all night and reach its highest point around 2am with local time, so meteors will be visible almost all night.
The same night, the moon will be ready 32 percent illuminated and will rise around 1:30 am East of the US, so if you look at this shower right after midnight, the moonlight will not interfere with your viewing experience.
Urets (December)
Halesid are active about 17 December to 26 December, peaking in the early hours of the morning of December 22. This meteor shower is less active than others, usually giving about 10 meteors per hour; However, the viewing conditions will be perfect for the passage of the sky. The moon will settle around 6pm east US at 9pm, so no moonlight will interfere with this meteor shower.
Although Upes -usually produce more meteors just before dawn, when its radiant, small dipper (or minor), is the highest in the sky, you will be able to see meteors all night during the peak of this shower. In the north width, Urets radiation is above the horizon throughout the night.
Showers to see next year
Quadrantids (January)
Quadrantids takes place in December and January and peak during the first week of the year. This meteor shower has a sharp roof, which means that most of its activity occurs in a narrow window. Quadrantides usually produce many fire meteors – that is, meteors that are very bright – with up to 120 meteors per hour during the shower roof.
The radiation of the quadrantids is the Quadrans Muralis constellation, though the international astronomical union no longer recognizes this group of stars as a constellation. Instead is the constellation boötes, which is near Dipper Big.
The Lyrids (April)
Lyrids are active in the second half of April, with their peak lasting about three nights. You can expect to see about 15 to 20 meteors per hour under ideal viewing conditions during the roof of lymps. In optimal viewing conditions, Stargazing website Heaven of the earth Notes, about a quarter of the stars of lyrids shots produce constant trains – making light strips that are the result of ionized gases as meteors enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
Lyrids radiation, Constellation Hercules, rises long before midnight, so meteors are visible all night, but most likely to be seen just before dawn, when the radiation reaches its highest point in the sky.
