Geminid Meteor Shower

An anonymous reader writes "physorg.com is carrying a story on the upcoming Geminid meteor shower, which will peak on December 13th. This is usually a high-rate meteor shower, and this year will be no different. The early morning hours are the best time to see them. Space.com is also reporting on the shower. This shower was also covered by Slashdot in 2003, 2002, and 2001."

Comments

Naked eyes and/or binoculars...

[datastalker]

Remember kids, for best viewing experience, just lie on the ground facing up - most of this can be seen with the naked eyes. If you want to try binoculars, that might work as well - but telescopes are not needed for this one. If someone had told me that the first time I went out to look, I wouldn't have wasted those first two hours wondering why I couldn't see anything. ;)

Re:Naked eyes and/or binoculars...

[imsabbel]

Binoculars not only dont help, they hurt. Telescopes even more...
You need to be able to watch as much of the sky as possibly... the small aperture of any maginification device will only cause you to muss most of the events...

Light pollution

[FiReaNGeL]

I sure love meteor showers (as everyone does I guess; I mean, free wishes!), but observing them in non-light polluted areas ain't easy. You have to get out of town, and even then, finding a 100% dark place is an adventure nowadays.