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- Certified dark sky place
Gisborne, New Zealand
Wednesday, December 9, 2026
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Meteor shower
Geminids
Active, around 15 an hour
Best around 3:26 AM
Rates are what one person might count under a dark sky, already brought down for how high the radiant gets here and for the Moon - not the headline figure, which assumes the radiant overhead and no light at all. Cloud is the other half, and it is on the sunset tile.
The richest shower of the year, and the radiant is up most of the night.
New moon
New moon
Moonless and fully dark 10:30 PM to 3:40 AM
New at 1:50 PM Wed 9 Dec
The darkest nights of the month for faint things - the Milky Way, meteors, the zodiacal light. The Moon itself cannot be seen: it sits between us and the Sun, lit on its far side.
That morning
Sunrise
5:36 AM
5:36 AM
Sunset
8:23 PM
8:23 PM
Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sun's own times - they will not change.
Moon
New moon
0% lit
5:04 AM – 8:50 PM
Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.
This day at a glance
Sunrise
Sunset
Moon, new moon
Upcoming celestial events for Gisborne, New Zealand
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