Spectacular Geminids meteor shower lights up UAE skies

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00:00The event of today is the meteor shower of Gemini, which is the best meteor shower of

00:08the year.

00:09We are anticipating to see multiple or many of the meteors falling from the sky.

00:14As we see, there is plenty of guests have arrived here, almost like 200 people, and

00:19it's very, very unique location also we have.

00:22With a collaboration with the government of Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Authority, we got Shawka

00:27Wadi, which is, masha'Allah, amazing location and it's a beautiful place to observe it.

00:32And as we see, the sky is beautifully shining the stars all the way, and meteors are falling.

00:37At the same time, we are also providing telescope observation for the planet like Mars and also

00:42deep sky object like Great Orion Nebula.

00:45So people can really enjoy the experience of the meteor shower, which is extending all

00:50the way to the three o'clock at morning.

00:52And we hope that everybody looks at this and enjoy it and learn more about astronomy because

00:57this is our objective that people should love astronomy and really interact with it.

01:01This is my first time with Dubai Astronomy Group.

01:04It's a wonderful experience overall.

01:06I see a lot of things in the sky.

01:08This is the first time I learned that, okay, how we can see Mars and I have spotted around

01:14eight meteors so far.

01:16It's been a very wonderful experience.

01:17This is my first time coming here.

01:20I was a little bit nervous.

01:23When I was coming along this way, I saw nothing in the sky.

01:28But when I got out of my car, I saw so many stars.

01:33So then later on, I was hearing the person's explanation.

01:40I liked it very much.

01:42And I saw so many meteor showers.

01:48I counted them and in total, I counted 14.

01:52This is my first experience of watching meteor showers.

01:57I'm really excited and the way everything has been arranged is incredible.

02:02I'm really eager to see the climax of the shower in the middle of the night.

02:08It's been a fantastic experience.

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