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Geminids
GEM
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Shower |
Activity Period |
Max. |
Radiant |
Vel.
km/s |
ZHR |
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R.A. |
Dec. |
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Geminids (GEM) |
Dec 07-Dec 17 |
Dec 14 |
07:28 |
+33° |
35 |
120 |
This is one of the finest
showers, boasting up to 75 meteors per hour. This shower shows a
clumping effect: the sky is silent for 4 to 5 minutes and then there
is a sudden burst of 4 or 5 meteors within a minute. You can see
beautiful fireballs from this shower.
20 and 40 deg circles to choose
the field centres. Numbers in brackets are the magnitudes up to two
decimal points. Capella [24] means it is 0.24 mag star. A meteor appearing
to be as bright as Capella can be taken as 0th magnitude.
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