This shower may result in around 15 visible meteors per hour under ideal viewing conditions — something not entirely possible with the lingering supermoon around.

Included in the list are the Geminids and Quadrantids meteor showers. They are two of the largest such events of the year, with Geminids producing upward of 150 meteors per hour a

More a popular term than a scientific one, a supermoon occurs when a full lunar phase syncs up with an especially close swing around Earth. This usually happens only three or four times a year and consecutively, given the moon’s constantly shifting, oval-shaped orbit.