Explanation:
Have you contemplated your sky recently?
Tonight will be a good one for midnight meditators at
many northerly locations as
meteors from the
Geminids meteor shower will frequently streak through.
The Geminds meteor shower has slowly been
building to a
crescendo and should peak tonight.
Pictured above ten days ago, a group of
celestial sightseers in the
Maranjab Desert in
Iran,
were treated to a dark and wondrous pre-dawn sky that contained
the planet Venus and a
crescent Moon.
Tonight Mars and Mercury should be
visible just above the southwestern horizon at sunset,
while the first quarter Moon will set around midnight.
