Predicted Meteor shower.

A rare and spectacular meteor shower will unfold over New Zealand skies later this year, when dust and debris from a well-known comet collides with Earth’s atmosphere.
Scientists have described the December 12 event as “really unusual” and the first time that a debris shower from the Comet 46P/Wirtanen1 will be widely observable overhead.
Wirtanen passes earth every 5 1/2 years.
The interesting thing is that it not its closest encounter that will give the meteor shower. In fact Back in 1974 and 1980 as it passed Jupiter on the way out its tail got caught by Jupiter’s gravity and has been slung back towards earth.
Earth will pass through this debris between 9 and 12 pm on 12 December.
It will originate from Constellation sculptor near Fomalhaut to the west.
If the skies are clear it promises to be a good naked eye show.
Our meteor camera at the observatory faces west so we should catch it. Next day (once the images have been processed) it will be seen (if skies were clear) at
https://globalmeteornetwork.org/weblog/NZ/NZ002F/latest/
Our camera is NZ002F
Enjoy
Terry