Meteors galore

[michaelmorris]

Just checked one of my cameras.  Recorded 38 meteors last night, this is the best one.

[jason.p]

Saw two in about 15mins on Friday before cloud moved in. Last night all clouded over then rain. I suppose seeing two could be seen as a result!

[wheresthetorch?]

Very clear night on the switch coast - we saw about 15 meteors between about 9.00 and 9.45. Some were quite bright with short trails, but no 'fireballs'.

[Pete Presland]

was out until it clouded over around 1:30, not the greatest shower but there was quite a few. one particularly nice bright one right through Orion was a joy to see.

[wheresthetorch?]

*south* coast!

[chiltonstar]

Rate here about one every 90 secs (23:00) ; not that bright as meteors go, though.

[Stu]

Probably saw 15 or so in several short sessions. It felt like about 1 every 2 or 3 minutes, so not bad. Some bright ones too

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[Mark62]

Was out about 11:15 and me and my wife saw 14 in half an hour mostly yellow and two or three reddish ones then came Mr cloud. They seems to go for ever.

Mark & Adele

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[LukeSkywatcher]

Nothing here lastnight but cloud. I dont mind though as I am knocking on heavens door with a bad dose of man flu.

[happy-kat]

Only saw 4 in the end but yet to review the two cameras though not hugely hopeful as they could only look just south east and the show had moved too far round to capture I think.

In the dead of night it was surprising how noisey the mirror flip was!

[Daniel-K]

check out this fireball vid here http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=104913&PHPSESSID=e936oars7nd5ovj0qf3od970j7

[DaveS]

Although it was clear, in the sense of no clouds, there was so much humidity in the air that the LP was rubbish, so the two that I saw must have been inherently bright. Thank heavens for NB imaging.

[hippie]

Had great views here in Dorset  of Orion, M41 & M47 tonight from my south facing window using my 15x70 Helios Bino,s, Wood burner blasting out  with all the comforts from a recliner chair hear indoors,    ,

     Fair few shooting stars at Midnight going over now with some going through Orion  ,

 

[chops]

Great in the South West: eldest daughter enthusiastically tallied 11; three of those were whilst waiting for the annual lights-on at Mousehole.

It really delighted them more than most astro. Full cloud cover by 11:30 (well past bedtime), but both girls have decided they want to build a temporary observatory to continue to observe.

[wxsatuser]

Saw a few while imaging last night, non that brilliant but nice all the same.

Going thru my subs to see if I caught any.

[mjpfc]

out between 00:00 and 02:15 in the Isle of Wight (got home late and looks like I missed the main show).

Grass cunchy and frosty underfoot, sky clear and moon quite low until later on but still only 4 seen.

(Two corkers with trails).

I also did a bit of DSO work with the scope so I may well have missed a few, and came in when Gemini was passing

to the SSSSSSSSSSS-W.

Mick

[skybadger]

Tally of 41 between 1030 and midnight from Berkshire/Hampshire border. Clear here . Some long, some bright , one trailed, no real colour to speak of. Everything that could go wrong with camera did but still caught two.

Mike

[Tomjo59]

Was out between 21:45 and 01:00 last night. Conditions good here in South Wiltshire, no cloud at all. In that time counted 70 Geminids, maybe six or seven bright ones. Also saw a couple of fainter Ursids. By the time I decided to call it a night (freezing fingers and toes!), the last quarter moon was starting to make its unwelcome presence felt.

[cotterless45]

Guy on Sky News. Said that they had good viewing, super news !

Nick.

[drmum]

I saw only 6 last night. Everyone was teasing me because I kept missing them. On the upside I saw Uranus (for the first time, yay!) as well as M75, the Andromeda Galaxy and both the others in it's local group, the Ring Nebula, Alberio double, Orion Nebula, the ISS as well as Jupiter and all four moons. Great company in our dome at the Bristol Astronomical Society last night. Fabulous evening.

Alison

[Stu]

Lovely and clear out there tonight, typically no chance to put the scope out. Just managed ten minutes in the garden having a gawp up at the sky and saw three Geminids and one sporadic (through Orion). Very nice

Jupiter looking lovely, need to get the Vixen on it!!

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[starman1969]

I took no chances & whisked myself off to Tenerife especially for the Geminids. We had perfect clear skies on the Saturday & Sunday. I recorded about 30 before they got too much to keep count. I must have seen about 100 over the 4 nights I was there. I would have seen many more if I wasn't messing about with cameras or talking to various people.

Friday night was quite cloudy, but I still managed to catch this screamer.