Just like the Perseid, Draconid and Leonid meteor showers trapped on tape, the light of a nearly-full silent celestial body threatens to wash away some of the Geminids.
But in accordance with Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, a number of lucky stargazers might still get a good view of the meteorites, what people sometimes call "shooting celebrities."
"Observers with apparent skies could see as many as 40 Geminids per hour,Inches Cooke said in a statement from NASA. "Our all-sky circle of meteor cameras provides captured several early Geminid fireballs. They were so vivid, we could see all of them despite the moonlight."
Their astronauts says that the best time to view meteors is going to be overnight, after Ten p.m. nearby time and before sun rising on Wednesday.
The consequence of bright Moon on the meteor shower was strongly illustrated to me during the Total Lunar Eclipse earlier this week. I was at Water Beach on the western side coast of San fran for the eclipse in the early morning hours. Facing western side, Gemini was directly before us, dominating the particular western sky. As the brightness of the Moon faded, we did start to notice meteors -- we were seeing some very early Geminid meteors, facing the sparkling directly. I was extremely surprised at the marked contrast in meteor rankings from Full Celestial satellite before the eclipse started out, to an ever-increasing amount of meteors on the very short period of time because Moon, in effect, while through all of the phases in about 60 minutes. It reaffirms for me the massive difference a moonlit night makes when watching the meteor shower.
