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More Incredible Geminid Meteor Shower Images and Video

December 18, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter “This shot is a composite of about 700 frames from a time-lapse I took in Big Sur, CA. I found 61 frames with meteors in them. (Some frames had two or three meteors.) Then I stacked the frames and created masks [...]

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Incredible Sky Show: Geminid Meteor Shower Images from Around the World

December 14, 2012

Geminids at Gates Pass. Composite image from 30 frames of video. Credit: Sean Parker The 2012 Geminid Meteor Shower has lived up to expectations, and here are some images and videos provided by people around the world. “What an incredible show we had here!” said Sean Parker in Tucson, Arizona, USA. “I was able to [...]

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Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight

December 13, 2012

Winter Milky Way Geminids on December 12, 2012. Credit: John Chumack The Geminid Meteor Shower is underway, with the peak on December 13th and 14th! SpaceWeather.com is reporting that international observers are counting as many as 50 meteors per hour as Earth plunges into a stream of debris from rock comet 3200 Phaethon. Astrophotographer John [...]

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Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast – March 19-25, 2012

March 18, 2012

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! The week starts off with new Moon and the perfect opportunity to do a Messier Marathon. The planets continue to dazzle as we not only celebrate the Vernal Equinox, but the March Geminid meteor shower as well! If that doesn’t get your pulsar racing – nothing will. It’s time to get out [...]

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Photos of the Geminid Meteor Shower

December 17, 2011

The Geminid meteor shower is one of the highly anticipated astronomical events this December. Peaking around December 13 and 14 every year, the meteor shower appears to come from the constellation Gemini where its name originated. We’ve collected several images of the December 2011 Geminid meteor shower taken from all over the world. We hope [...]

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