It is time for one of the most reliable meteor showers of the year. The Geminids are active between 4 and 17 December, with the peak of activity usually coming on the night of 13-14 December.
This year, the peak is expected to bring about 120 meteors an hour, although a nearby waning gibbous Moon with around 73% of its surface illuminated will make if difficult to see the fainter meteors. As the name suggests, the Geminids radiate from a point within Gemini, the twins, just above the constellation’s two brightest stars Castor and Pollux. The meteors will appear to streak across the sky in all directions from this point, known as the radiant.
