Contemplating the Sky . ... Tonight will be a good one for midnight meditators at many northerly locations as meteors from the Geminids meteor shower will frequently streak through. The Geminds meteor shower has slowly been building to a crescendo and should peak tonight. Pictured above ten days ago, a group of celestial sightseers in the Maranjab Desert in Iran , were treated to a dark and wondrous pre-dawn sky that contained the planet Venus and a crescent Moon . ...