“A shooting star show, enjoy online!” National Gwacheon Science Museum, Gemini meteor shower online real-time broadcasting
[시사토픽뉴스] The National Gwacheon Science Museum (Director Jeong-mo Lee) announced that the meteor shower observation images will be broadcast online in real time from 9 pm on December 13 to 4 am on the 14th, which is the maximum active time of the Gemini meteor shower.
The Gemini meteor shower, which is active every year from early to mid-December, is known as one of the three major meteor showers of the year, along with the quadrant meteor shower in January and the Perseus meteor shower in August.
Meteors, commonly referred to as shooting stars, are the instantaneous shining of small dust or particles that make up a meteor colliding with the Earth’s atmosphere. In particular, when the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet or asteroid, more meteors intensively fall than usual, which is called a meteor shower.
The Gemini meteor shower was first observed in 1862 and is known to be activated by the asteroid 3200 Phaeton. Meteor activity begins to become active from around December 4, when the Earth enters Paeton’s orbit, peaking between the 13th and 14th, and continues until the 17th.
Meteors that appear and disappear instantaneously while drawing a long trajectory can easily be observed by anyone with the naked eye without any special equipment if the sky is dark and open in all directions.
Meteors appear and disappear in a very short period of time, so the darker the sky, the more you can see. Therefore, the number of meteors that can be observed increases the further from the city center.
The peak period of the Gemini meteor shower this year is predicted from the evening of the 13th to the dawn of the 14th, and the International Meteorological Organization (IMO) announced that under ideal conditions, up to 150 meteors per hour will drop. Moreover, unlike last year, this year is the best environment for viewing meteor showers as there is no moon that interferes with observation.
The Gemini meteor shower falls in all directions around Gemini, so it is important to be prepared to see the wide sky at a glance for a long time. In particular, thorough measures against cold weather are required because observations must be made outside for a long time in the middle of winter.
Gemini meteor shower online broadcast is conducted at the Hwacheon Landscape Chul Astronomical Observatory in Hwacheon, Gangwon-do, at the top of Mt.
The online broadcast will be broadcast through the YouTube channel of the National Gwacheon Science Museum from 9 pm on the 13th to 4 am on the 14th, and the starry sky is broadcast, along with commentary on meteor showers and constellations, and astronomical observation images through telescopes. If it snows or rains or if there is more than 50% of the clouds on the day, the broadcast will be canceled.
“The meteor shower Gemini is famous as a meteor shower that can see the most shooting stars throughout the year,” said Daeyoung Park, a specialist at the National Gwacheon Science Museum. I do.”
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