The Geminids are coming!!

[andrew63]

Yes the 14 then then into the 15th early hours - it was a good night here!

[Mal22]

19 minutes ago, Leo S said:

Are the previous 4 replies referring to last night?

Yes mine was last night 

[andrew63]

As last night progressed it got steadily better, around midnight now the 15th, I saw a lovely fireball heading for Pegasus in the west. It was a very bright green flash with trail, a startling sight, one of the best I've seen for a while - hope someone got a capture of it. I got a few good images from the night with my iPhone. The first over Orion, was quite a bright one -  perhaps mag. -2

[happy-kat]

Nice to see some captures.

Nothing on my camera it was fairly patchy cloud, it ran from just after 12 to 4 ish 

[Elp]

3 hours ago, Leo S said:

Are the previous 4 replies referring to last night?

Yes night of 13th to 14th.

[John_D]

4 hours ago, Leo S said:

Are the previous 4 replies referring to last night?

I am. 100% cloud here tonight and drizzle so no chance of a repeat ☹️

[John_D]

3 hours ago, andrew63 said:

As last night progressed it got steadily better, around midnight now the 15th, I saw a lovely fireball heading for Pegasus in the west. It was a very bright green flash with trail, a startling sight, one of the best I've seen for a while - hope someone got a capture of it. I got a few good images from the night with my iPhone. The first over Orion, was quite a bright one -  perhaps mag. -2

Great photos. How did you set up the camera?

[andrew63]

15 minutes ago, John_D said:

Great photos. How did you set up the camera?

I mount my phone on a tripod, leave it for a few hours taking frames while I'm also out observing and check later to see if it's picked up anything. Sometimes it's taken an image of what I've also viewed, which is nice. And of course it's only viewing a small area with a 26mm lens so it misses some really nice ones I see! The app I use for this is called NightCap

https://www.nightcapcamera.com

[scotty1]

Friday 15th Dec 23.30GMT

I've been outside for 45mins , it's fairly clear Taurus and M45 easily visible. 

I haven't seen one meteor ,I didn't expect to see many , I thought there may of been about 5 per hour...

 

Edited December 16, 2023 by scotty1

[Elp]

This was by far the best one captured live realtime video, total captured around 20 over pre and peak night but none of the others looked anything like this one:

[scotty1]

22 hours ago, Elp said:

This was by far the best one captured live realtime video, total captured around 20 over pre and peak night but none of the others looked anything like this one:

 

What camera is that ELP?  

[andrew63]

Another bright Geminid from the 14 Dec. with iPhone. Jupiter is at the edge right of frame for comparison. 

 

[LukeSkywatcher]

Totally clouded out yet again.

[Elp]

16 hours ago, scotty1 said:

What camera is that ELP?  

The legendary Sony A7S, don't think there's any other consumer camera range out there that can do anything like this. I wouldn't recommend them for AP though, they have issues, stick to Canon for AP.