EELabs (eelabs.eu) is a project financed by the INTERREG V-A MAC 2014-2020 Programme, co-financed by the FEDER (European Regional Development Fund) of the European Union, under contract number MAC2/4.6d/238. Five centres in Macaronesia work in EELabs (IAC, ITER, UPGC, SPEA-Azores, SPEA-Madeira).
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During the nights of 12th and 13th of December we will enjoy the peak of the Geminid meteor shower. This will be broadcast live from the Teide Observatory (Tenerife) and from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory ( La Palma) via the sky-live.tv channel, with the collaboration with the Energy Efficiency Labs (EELabs project of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Programme of Astronomical Outreach of SODEPAL and the Innovation Service of the Cabildo Insular of La Palma. During the past decade the Geminids have always bid farewell to the year by producing over 100 meteors
NASA: The Geminids from the Canaries, astronomical image of the day We receive a message from an asteroid in the guise of a meteor shower
This astronomical event will be visible from both northern and southern hemispheres, and the peak of its activity will be during the nights of Thursday 13th and Friday 14th December. During the second night there will be a direct broadcats from the Teide Observatory (Tenerife) thanks to the collaboration of the European project STAR4ALL.
The European project STARS4ALL and sky-live.tv, bring the shower to your home. Live, from the clear Canary Islands skies. Geminids’ father is a strange asteroid. Phaethon might mean, in the future, the Earth’s destruction.
The maximum frequency of this meteor shower is expected to be at 18.00 hours UT on 14th December
Every year at about this date the Earth in its orbit round the Sun meets up with a stream of particles from the asteroid 3200 Phaeton, which produces the meteor shower known as the Geminids. This year we had a good opportunity to observe them. The maximum of this shower, which was expected at 18.00 UT yesterday, December 14 th, occurred with the Moon just emerging from new. For that reason the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) wanted to present the spectacle to the general public through its website and the sky-live.tv portal. the meteor shower will be broadcast directly from
