The annual Geminid meteor shower will light up the night sky this weekend. Find a dark place and enjoy the celestial show.
The meteor shower is expected to peak Sunday night into Monday morning. Find a place away from city lights and plan to spend 30 minutes to 45 minutes outside.
Mount Lemmon Sky Center’s Adam Block has other tips for viewing.
"The nice thing about a meteor shower is that although the meteors appear to come from a particular direction in the sky, in this case the constellation of Gemini, they can be seen anywhere in the sky," Block said.
Your timing can improve the odds of seeing the display.
"The number of meteors that you will see will tend to increase the later in the evening and into the morning you look. So after midnight tends to be a very good time to see the peak of the meteor activity," he said.
Block said there could be up to two meteors visible each minute.
If you can’t make it outside, NASA TV will broadcast a live stream of the meteor shower and comments by researchers starting at 9 p.m. Mountain time Sunday.