I'm a Gemini, and those damn clouds better get the hell outta my way!
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> East! Perfect for the beach! Hope the clouds move out. More below:
>
>
> Where to look -
>
> These medium-speed meteors appear to emanate from near the bright
> star Castor, in the constellation of Gemini the Twins hence the
> name "Geminid."
>
> The track of each one does not necessarily begin near Castor, nor
> even in the constellation Gemini, but it always turns out that the
> path of a Geminid extended backward passes through a tiny region of
> sky about 0.2 degree in diameter (an effect of perspective). In
> apparent size, that's less than half the width of the moon. As
> such, this is a rather sharply defined radiant as most meteor
> showers go, suggesting the stream is "young" perhaps only several
> thousand years old.
>
> Generally speaking, depending on your location, Castor begins to
> come up above the east-northeast horizon right around the time
> evening twilight is coming to an end.
>
> As Gemini is beginning to climb the eastern sky just after darkness
> falls, there is a fair chance of seeing some "Earth-grazing"
> meteors. Earthgrazers are long, bright shooting stars that streak
> overhead from a point near to even just below the horizon. Such
> meteors are so distinctive because they follow long paths nearly
> parallel to our atmosphere.
>
> By around 9 p.m., Gemini will have climbed more than one-third of
> the way up from the horizon. Meteor sightings should begin to
> increase noticeably thereafter. By around 2 a.m., Gemini will stand
> high overhead.
>
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