Opportune time meteor avalanche of seeing would be roughly around midnight. Finland Geminidit fluorescent cover is likely to cloud the curtain behind.Geminidit photographed in Northern Spain in 2015. EPA/AOP
the Next night, I don’t want to go to bed very early, as the sky, weather permitting, in the brightest meteor shower, Geminidit.
Geminidit are the Perseids and kvadrantidit along with the years most spectacular meteor shower – and if those in between have a choice to make, the first place takes at least this year Geminidit.
It is due to the fact that Geminidit is this year particularly active. Yet three years ago the sky was Geminidit time possible to see about 70 shooting stars per hour, but this year the number may rise to well over a hundred.
– be Prepared to see 120 meteors an hour in the dark sky, nasa’s website explains.
glimmer of Hope
geminidit the meteor and the star, the number of flights has grown steadily year by year. Nasa says the best time to see shooting stars is around midnight and after.
the meteorological department of meteorology Oscar Rockas can not promise, that heaven light show to enjoy Finland very promising. Almost the whole of the earth’s cloud cover always of Oulu height.
the Cloud in addition to the weather maps shown, however, a glimmer of hope.
– Western Lapland may be areas where cloud cover is likely to tear. The sky can be the minute to open at midnight. The same situation is in south-west Finland Turku nearby, Rockas says.
opportunities are not to praise, but that’s the breaks.
Naked eye
the star of the track does not need any aids. Enough, when looking at the sky area with a good view of the sky and which is as little as possible light pollution – but the meteor shower I saw, though, would be a big town, where there is light pollution.
If there is a hard obsessive a meteor fan, you should own a vantage point will drag myself in good time. Eyes going about half an hour to adapt to darkness. After the shooting star should look näyttäväm.
Geminidit appear in the sky every year in mid-December. Its source is an asteroid called 3200 phant gideon, that will leave dust and gravel in its orbit. Shooting stars are born when the earth passes through the pölyvana through, making this material comes from its atmosphere. In this case, the dust and gravel heat up and glow. This appears to us as a falling star.
Geminidit was observed for the first time in 1833.
you Took a picture of the star on the fly? Send a picture to us at il.toimitus@iltalehti.fi
