It can be glimpsed far to the lower right of Venus 20 to 30 minutes after sunset. It looks like a yellowish-orange star. It moves to the southwest later in the evening. It looks like a relatively bright yellowish star. Saturn is in the northeast after sunset.
Meteors appear as streaks of light zipping across the sky.
Meteors, often referred to as shooting stars, occur when material, generally dust or sand sized, collides with the Earth's atmosphere and burns up due to friction. As many as a few dozen Geminid meteors are typically visible per hour, but moonlight will blot out all but the brightest meteors this year. Two previously unknown moons of Uranus were discovered using the Palomar 200 inch telescope. These are the two faintest moons ever discovered using a ground based telescope. Uranus well outside the orbits of the planet s other satellites, and were undetected by the Voyager 2 spacecraft when it flew past Uranus in 1986.