Geminds Meteor Shower Peaks This Thursday Night/Friday Morning

[Hardrock69]

Went outside at 11:30. Saw 4 in the first 10 minutes. Came in for awhile. Went outside for 5 minutes. Saw another one that I am sure was in the field of view of my camera.

Am going out now, with gloves, nice wool army blanket....and kick back......got my buzz on.....gonna be cold.....gonna be beautifully kickass muffukaz.....

[Hardrock69]

Have seen easily a dozen in the past 15 minutes. Back in here getting warm, while letting the camera freeze it's ass off.

[Little Texan]

I stood outside for 10 minutes and I saw 6, and a few of them were pretty impressive. I saw two back to back in nearly the same spot. This shower is much better than the dud one back during the summer.

[Hardrock69]

Heck, most of them for the past couple of years have not lived up to their billing. This one is doing great. Have seen 2-dozen in the past half hour. Many faint and fast, some bright and slow.....and it is only 1:16 AM!

Time to bring the cam battery back in for a charge....

[Hardrock69]

Man! While I was getting the battery out of the cam, I was looking up and I saw one that made me say "GOD FUCKING DAYUM!!!!"

Really amazing!

[Hardrock69]

Ok time to fire up another one!

[Hardrock69]

Oh wow man.....hey....are yoo reeedin this? Far out groovy man like wow man y'know what I mean y'know?

Like dig man, like the sky and stuff...yoo no....the muffakin' sky, bitches!!!

Lawdy land-sakes alive!

[Hardrock69]

Somedaze I need to buy a spare battery.....this sucker takes half an hour or more to charge.....and I could be outside getting images right now.....

[Nitro Express]

Oh wow man.....hey....are yoo reeedin this? Far out groovy man like wow man y'know what I mean y'know?

Like dig man, like the sky and stuff...yoo no....the muffakin' sky, bitches!!!

Lawdy land-sakes alive!

Scuse me while I kiss the sky...dah dah day dee dee dee....Purple Haze all around.......

Star gazing is a lot like fishing. You really don't go to fish. You take all the equipment out but the real motive is just to get loaded. You don't have a big cooler in the fishing boat for nothing.

[Hardrock69]

Lol. I just am because I can for once. But my true aim is to get a good shot of a meteor.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

any luck?

[Zing!]

I saw... clouds.

[Hardrock69]

Ok. Got the cam running by 11:30....left it out until 1:30, brought the battery in for a charge, fired it up again at 2:15, let it run for another hour, then it was so cold I called it quits.....perfect timing too, as when I started, it was super clear, but by 3:15, high cirrus clouds had begun to move in.

I saw dozens of meteors. Mostly faint, quick movers......about 10% were really bright spectacular fireballs.....

Out of about 300 images, I got images of 4 meteors.

This first photo was of a really bright one, which I saw when it hit the atmosphere. Only problem is that I only caught the tail end of it, in the upper right corner:



The other 3 images...the meteor was pretty much in the center of the frame, but dimmer.

Here is the best of the other 3:



My goal is to get one as bright as in the first photo, but centered like the second photo.

It is all a crapshoot.

Someday....

This is it for 2012 meteor season.

[ashstralia]

nice work Hr! my only images are locked up in my current firmware/wetware.

[Hardrock69]

Note that because the meteor is just a momentary flash in a 20-second exposure, the second image was actually much brighter than it appears in the photo.

The first photo the meteor was REALLY bright.