CCTV network news: Be called " the Northern Hemisphere 3 fireball rain " one of Gemini meteor shower, in opportunity of observation of the first-rate in will be being greeted Saturday originally, interested friends do not want to miss certainly. Annual going to 17 December 4 is Gemini meteor shower is active period, this year of this meteor shower great, namely meteoric amount is maximum period of time is Beijing time arrived at 10 o'clock December 14 between 15 7 o'clock, theoretic, amount of horary shooting star can be amounted to inside this paragraph of time 120 go to 150. But because be affected by the moon with bright full moon, the shooting star that this people can see actually is controlled in 20 about. To our country public, 15 optimal opportunities that observation is before day break arrive after 14 days are black.
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Gemini meteor shower and quadrant meteor shower, Perseus meteor shower calls the Northern Hemisphere 3 fireball rain, duration of Gemini meteor shower is long, the speed of meteoroid compares slow, color to slant white, and bright shooting star is more, return companion to bolide appears constantly. Gemini meteor shower appears in 19 centuries middle period when, its meteoric amount is at first less, hourly only 10 go to 20, its discharge begins to increase slowly later, already developed nowadays become annual one of meteor shower with larger flow. Observation meteor shower uses naked eye can, besides wanting to have good weather, people chooses lamplight to affect little place even, observation place had better be all around open, without the clearing of high mountain or building keep out, people makes winter observation meteor shower even measure of good heat preservation.
