If any of you love watching meteor showers like me, there’s a meteor shower peaking tomorrow night, December 13th/morning of the 14th. With this shower, you should be able to see up to 60 multicolored meteors per hour. They will be radiating from the constellation Gemini and best viewing will be to the east after midnight.
Also…there will be a total lunar eclipse on December 21st. It will be visible after midnight here and the moon will be almost directly overhead.
I love stargazing with my family. The night sky was amazing to look at this past weekend! I noticed a really bright star in the southwestern sky and found out it was Venus (with Mars and Saturn right nearby). This weekend coming up is a great time to get outside and watch the skies…the Perseids Meteor Shower is this weekend. It’s peak is the early morning of August 13th but you can generally see the meteors starting August 11th. The best time to watch just before daybreak while it’s still very dark but you can start viewing after midnight. I found this great site that tells you what’s going on in the night sky every night: EarthSky. The kids are excited to watch for the “shooting stars” since we can usually find a few without having to stay up to midnight with them, lol!
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