IT House December 12 news, due to the large amount and stability, Gemini meteor shower and quadrant meteor shower, Perseid meteor shower and known as the three major meteor showers in the northern hemisphere.
According to CCTV, the last large meteor shower in 2021, the Gemini meteor shower, will peak next Tuesday (December 14) and is expected to reach up to 150 per hour. The Gemini meteor shower has three characteristics of white color, slower meteor body speed and more bright meteors, and small partners who want to observe do not miss Oh ~
IT House learned that the Gemini meteor shower is called the "Gemini meteor shower" because the radiation point of the meteor is located in gemini, which is not to say that meteors only appear in Gemini, this batch of meteors may appear in any direction in the sky.
The Gemini meteor shower is active this year from December 4 to the end of December 17, and astronomers predict a maximum time to appear at 8:50 Beijing time on December 14, and the maximum zenith flow per hour is expected to reach 150.
Experts said that the evening of December 13 to the morning of The 14th is the best time to observe; it can also be observed for several days before and after, but the number of meteors that can be seen is greatly reduced. It is worth mentioning that the 14th is exactly the 30th of October in the lunar calendar, and the moon does not affect the observation at all.
In addition, in the early morning of December 13, before sunrise, bright Venus and a crooked remnant moon will appear in the low southeast, bringing a beautiful picture of the "Venus and Moon", when two commanding planets can be seen "closely dependent": Venus is above, and the thin crescent is on the left below.
