What kind of meteor shower can you see in Changchun in 2008?

There are no meteor showers worth observing in the remaining two months of this year. The Geminid meteor shower in December is one of the three major meteor showers throughout the year, but the maximum value on December 13 this year is the 16th day of the lunar calendar. The moon phase is close to 100%, and the angular distance from the radiant is less than 20°, all night long All will affect the observation (if you have carefully watched the brilliance of the full moon, you can realize that it has a fatal impact on astronomical observation). However, the Geminid meteor shower is active from December 7th to 18th, so try to avoid the influence of the full moon. Moreover, the Geminid meteor shower has many bright fireballs. If you are doing visual observation, you should try to keep your field of vision away from the moon. When conducting photographic observations, it is necessary to pay attention to increasing the sensitivity and shortening the exposure time, so that the meteors can be as little as possible submerged by the background skylight illuminated by the full moon.

At 15:30 on December 22 (accurate forecast, may be affected by the movement of the earth), the Ursid meteor shower will be extremely powerful. The radiant point of the Ursids meteor shower is close to the North Celestial Pole, and the observation conditions are good. For areas around 40° north latitude, the radiant height will rise above 30° at 1 am. For Chinese observers, the ideal observation time is from the evening of the same day to the early morning of the next day. At this time, the moon phase is waning and it only rises from the southeast at 3 am, which has little impact on the observation. Moreover, on January 26 at the beginning of this year, Comet 8P Tuttle, the parent comet of the Ursid meteor shower, passed perihelion, so the Ursid meteor shower is likely to explode in a big way, so it is even more worth looking forward to.

The relatively stable meteor showers throughout the year include

the Quadrantid meteor shower that peaks around January 4;

the Lyrid meteor shower that peaks around April 22 ;

The Perseids meteor shower will peak around August 13-14;

The Leonid meteor shower will peak around November 17-18;

The Geminid meteor shower peaks around December 14th.