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Geminid Meteor Shower Visibility Map 2025. Geminid meteor shower 2025 — When, where and how to see it Space The Geminid meteor shower will be active from 4 December to 17 December, producing its peak rate of meteors around 14 December The shower owes its name to the constellation Gemini.

The visibility of a meteor shower depends on the Moon's position and brightness The blue and white areas represent night and day, while the reddish area highlights when the radiant is above the horizon.

Geminid meteor shower How to see it at its peak

The Geminid meteor shower will be active from 4 December to 17 December, producing its peak rate of meteors around 14 December Timing is everything when it comes to watching meteor showers The Geminid meteor shower is nearly 200 years old, according to known records — the first recorded observation was in 1833 from a riverboat on the Mississippi River — and is still going strong.

Geminid meteor shower Where, when and how to watch it. The visibility of a meteor shower depends on the Moon's position and brightness Some of the most prominent showers in 2025 include: - Lyrids (April 22-23): A moderate shower with about 20 meteors per hour

Geminid meteor shower How to see one of the best natural light shows of the year Science. As the meteor shower's radiant lies within the zodiac constellation Gemini, its meteors can be observed everywhere on the Earth. However, the shower will be visible from the late evening of December 12 through the dawn of December 13, as its radiant (the point from where the shower radiates in the sky) rises in the mid-evening, reaches its highest point in the sky after midnight, and sets in the morning.