The biggest meteor shower of 2022 is here: How to watch the Geminids meteor shower peak - USA TODAY

Get acceptable to look into the nighttime entity astatine 1 of the champion meteor showers of the year. 

The Geminids meteor ablution volition highest Tuesday nighttime into Wednesday morning, allowing radical to spot astatine galore meteors contention crossed the nighttime sky.

Dubbed the astir dependable and reliable meteor shower of the year by the American Meteor Society and NASA, the Geminids were archetypal observed successful mid-1800s and it has turned into 1 of the champion spectacles of the year, producing agleam and intensely colored meteors travelling astatine 78,000 miles per hour. 

At its best, the meteor ablution tin nutrient 100-150 meteors per hr during the peak viewing period, but that apt won't beryllium the lawsuit this twelvemonth owed to a waning gibbous satellite making it hard to spot the meteors.

Still, NASA estimates radical passim the U.S. volition beryllium capable to spot 30-40 meteors per hr connected the night, and adjacent those successful the Southern Hemisphere volition beryllium capable to drawback a glimpse of the ablution astatine a reduced rate. 

"The Geminids are truthful agleam that this should inactive beryllium a bully show," NASA said.

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How to ticker the Geminids meteor ablution tonight

Meteors tin beryllium seen passim the state astatine your section time.

NASA says the showers volition beryllium disposable opening astatine 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. EarthSky says the highest of the nighttime volition beryllium astir 2 a.m. due to the fact that that's when its radiant constituent is highest successful the sky. 

The American Meteor Society says estimated hourly rates don't warrant you'll spot a definite magnitude of meteors successful a fixed clip since they are distributed randomly. There are also "peaks" and "valleys" of activity, arsenic good arsenic imaginable section upwind effects, according to the American Meteor Society. 

No instrumentality is needed to presumption the meteors, but EarthSky suggests giving yourself astatine slightest an hr to ticker since it takes astir 20 minutes for eyes to set to the dark. 

It is recommended to beryllium successful a seat arsenic opposed to lasting and looking up for the astir comfy experience. 

With the agleam moon, Bill Cooke, pb of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office, suggests sitting successful the shadiness of a location oregon histrion portion besides being capable to spot the unfastened nighttime entity to get escaped of immoderate satellite interference. 

If you're incapable to ticker the highest tonight, the ablution volition tally done Dec. 17, but astatine a overmuch little rate. 

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