By SHOKO TAMAKI/ Staff Writer
December 14, 2022 at 14:58 JST
The Geminids, one of the three major annual meteor showers, will peak around 10 p.m. on Dec. 14 and continue to fall until dawn on Dec. 15.
Star gazers are advised to observe them on Dec. 14, because the moon will gradually rise, and the moonlight in the morning hours could make the meteors more difficult to see.
In places with no streetlights, spectators can expect to observe 40 to 50 meteors an hour when the Geminids are at their peak.
The Asahi Shimbun, in cooperation with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the University of Tokyo, will livestream the Geminids from NAOJ’s Subaru Telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, as well as the university’s Kiso Observatory in Nagano Prefecture.
The space show can be seen on the YouTube channel: (https://www.youtube.com/c/astroasahi).
The other two major meteor showers are the Quadrantids in January and the Perseids in August.
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