Geminids Meteor Shower (12 Dec 2025)
Date: 12 December 2025 (Friday)
Time: 10:00 PM – 02:00 AM
Location: Al Qudra Desert – Dubai
Fee: AED 200 – AED 175
Register: https://althurayaastronomycenter.ae/geminids-meteor-shower-2025/
Join us for a magical two-night Geminids Meteor Shower experience at Al Qudra Desert! From 10 PM to 2 AM each night, escape the city lights and enjoy one of the year’s most spectacular meteor displays.
The Geminids are considered to be one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, with the possibility of sighting around 120 meteors per hour at its peak. The shower owes its name to the constellation Gemini because the meteors seem to emerge from this constellation in the sky. Unlike most other meteor showers, the Geminids are not associated with a comet but with an asteroid: 3200 Phaethon. The asteroid takes about 1.4 years to orbit the Sun.
Although the peak of the meteor shower is on the night of the 13th (Saturday), we’re still expecting to see plenty of good meteors on the night of the 12th as well. The event is a two-day program, giving us great chances on both nights.
Event Ticket Fee:
- General Tickets: AED 200
- Kids (Under 13): AED 175
Event Program:
- 10:15 PM – Event Introduction
- 10:45 PM – Talk: Geminids Meteor Shower
- 11:30 PM – Sky Mapping Session (Stories about the Constellations)
- 12:00 AM – Q & A Session
- 12:00 AM – Peak of the Meteor Shower starts
- Telescope Observation throughout the night of Jupiter, Saturn, and Deep sky objects.
- Phone photography through the telescopes.