“From the evening of December 13, the Moon will shine like 77 percent of the full moon, and the next morning it will not set until almost three o’clock. Only then will the sky become dark enough to record significant numbers of meteors, “said Suchan. Under ideal conditions, you can see up to a hundred meteors per hour, but when viewed from the city or with a bright moon, it is significantly less.
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“When observing meteors, the direction of the sky is not the most important thing. Meteors appear all over the sky. When looking towards the radiant, they are short and slow. On the contrary, the longest and fastest seems to be when we look 90 degrees from the radiant, “Suchan recommended.
The radiant, ie the place where the meteors seem to fly, is located in the constellation of Gemini, according to whose Latin name the Geminids got theirs. Suchan remarked that in addition to warm clothes, a little patience was needed to observe. “Human vision needs at least 15 to 20 minutes to adapt to darkness. Only then is it able to capture even weaker meteors, “he emphasized.
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