Geminid meteor shower: Best time to watch in Colorado
The Geminid meteor shower is known as a prolific producer of shooting stars. It can send up to 100 and 20 Meteors across the sky every hour. The peak of the show will start on Wednesday night. But unfortunately, most of the sky in Colorado will still be shrouded in cloud cover from a winter storm. But the neat thing about the geminid is, uh, it’s got a fairly long peak. Ron Renick with the Denver Astronomical Society says Thursday night into Friday morning will also provide a peak display and the weather should cooper. The skies are forecast to
clear shortly after sunset on Thursday, giving most of Colorado a clear view. The geminid will appear to be coming from the constellation Gemini, it’s called the shower radiant point and that would be one spot to start watching for flashes. You can do that, but you’re probably going to see more Meteors if you look more or less straight up because if the uh the farther away in the sky you’re looking from the radiant, the lo the odds are you’re going to see longer Meteors. Most meteor showers happen when the earth travels through the dust of a
comet, but the geminid are actually pieces of an asteroid. So they can be a bit larger and denser, potentially creating a brighter meteor. But they are still much smaller
