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The sky was full of meteors!
The Geminids put on a very impressive performance over Colorado this
year. Last night my video allsky camera recorded 298 meteors, of which at least 232 were Geminids. It caught a total of 419 Geminids over the last four nights. Although the camera is only sensitive to magnitude 1, it recorded a peak rate of 50 meteors per hour at 4am local this morning (UT 11:00 14 December). I went out a few times during the night and always saw many events, typically two or three per minute. I've posted a composite image and many fireball videos at http://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2009.html _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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The sky was full of meteors!
"Chris L Peterson" wrote in message ... The Geminids put on a very impressive performance over Colorado this year. Last night my video allsky camera recorded 298 meteors, of which at least 232 were Geminids. It caught a total of 419 Geminids over the last four nights. Although the camera is only sensitive to magnitude 1, it recorded a peak rate of 50 meteors per hour at 4am local this morning (UT 11:00 14 December). I went out a few times during the night and always saw many events, typically two or three per minute. I've posted a composite image and many fireball videos at http://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2009.html _________________________________________________ Lucky bastage. |
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The sky was full of meteors!
On Dec 14, 9:41*am, Chris L Peterson wrote:
The Geminids put on a very impressive performance over Colorado this year. Last night my video allsky camera recorded 298 meteors, of which at least 232 were Geminids. It caught a total of 419 Geminids over the last four nights. Although the camera is only sensitive to magnitude 1, it recorded a peak rate of 50 meteors per hour at 4am local this morning (UT 11:00 14 December). I went out a few times during the night and always saw many events, typically two or three per minute. I've posted a composite image and many fireball videos athttp://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2009.html _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatoryhttp://www.cloudbait.com That's way better than anything our NASA has to offer. ~ BG |
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The sky was full of meteors!
On Dec 14, 11:41*am, Chris L Peterson wrote:
I've posted a composite image and many fireball videos at http://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2009.html Impressive!! Love it. Rolando |
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The sky was full of meteors!
uncarollo wrote:
On Dec 14, 11:41 am, Chris L Peterson wrote: I've posted a composite image and many fireball videos at http://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2009.html Impressive!! Love it. Rolando Yes, no question ! I only saw 12 from 5:18 - 5:56 am EST But then I'm under mag 4.0 skies at best, with massive lighting 300m away in the park. (tho was able to shield myself from them somewhat) The brightest emanated from Castor's foot to almost the ground, very bright. One went from N to S just west of Mars. All the rest emanated from the Leo area, and streaked ESE above Corvus and Crater, with one exception which sailed right past Saturn heading east. Thanx Chris. -- AM http://sctuser.home.comcast.net http://www.novac.com |
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The sky was full of meteors!
This must be an error. No reports show anything even remotely close to the
number of ones you recorded. Are you sure you're not confusing data with a prior shower? "Chris L Peterson" wrote in message ... The Geminids put on a very impressive performance over Colorado this year. Last night my video allsky camera recorded 298 meteors, of which at least 232 were Geminids. It caught a total of 419 Geminids over the last four nights. Although the camera is only sensitive to magnitude 1, it recorded a peak rate of 50 meteors per hour at 4am local this morning (UT 11:00 14 December). I went out a few times during the night and always saw many events, typically two or three per minute. I've posted a composite image and many fireball videos at http://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2009.html _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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The sky was full of meteors!
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:03:17 -0500, "Carl Ampo" wrote:
This must be an error. No reports show anything even remotely close to the number of ones you recorded. Are you sure you're not confusing data with a prior shower? No chance of such confusion. A peak rate of 50 meteors per hour brighter than magnitude 1 (which is what I recorded) is reasonably consistent with a peak visual rate of 150 meteors per hour (which is what the IMO reported). _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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The sky was full of meteors!
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:17:39 -0500, AM wrote:
The brightest emanated from Castor's foot to almost the ground, very bright. One went from N to S just west of Mars. The composite I posted has an interesting featu Pollux is just bright enough to show a faint trail. Since it is only a few degrees from the Geminid radiant, you can use its position on the image to tell approximately when any individual meteor occurred. You just need to follow the path of a meteor backwards until it intersects the trail of Pollux. If the intersection is towards the east the meteor was early in the evening; towards the west it was approaching dawn. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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Chris L Peterson wrote in
: Carl, Chris's numbers are consistent with radio meteor observing, although radio observing sees fainter. http://217.169.242.217/rmob/pages/li...meteorpage.php The IMO preliminary visual count - http://www.imo.net/live/geminids2009/ Clear Skies - Canopus56 On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:03:17 -0500, "Carl Ampo" wrote: This must be an error. No reports show anything even remotely close to the number of ones you recorded. Are you sure you're not confusing data with a prior shower? No chance of such confusion. A peak rate of 50 meteors per hour brighter than magnitude 1 (which is what I recorded) is reasonably consistent with a peak visual rate of 150 meteors per hour (which is what the IMO reported). _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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The sky was full of meteors!
Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:17:39 -0500, AM wrote: The brightest emanated from Castor's foot to almost the ground, very bright. One went from N to S just west of Mars. The composite I posted has an interesting featu Pollux is just bright enough to show a faint trail. Since it is only a few degrees from the Geminid radiant, you can use its position on the image to tell approximately when any individual meteor occurred. You just need to follow the path of a meteor backwards until it intersects the trail of Pollux. If the intersection is towards the east the meteor was early in the evening; towards the west it was approaching dawn. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com Cool, I'll give it a try. You don't have a larger sized ver of that image ? TIA -- AM http://sctuser.home.comcast.net http://www.novac.com |
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