CCTV Bright geminids.

[John Hothersall]

Mintron 8.5mm Pentax Lens F1.5 4fps.

Too windy for deep space imaging but perfect weather/moon for Geminids, most meteors captured were 2nd/3rd mag with a few brighter and quite a lot dimmer, on the 14th I got a -3 Geminid through Orion leaving a slight train which was the brightest I captured.

The Mintron (GStar-Ex) can see down to 6.5 mag at 4fps but the lens gives a 39 degree diagonal which is a bit small as dim meteors occur close to the radiant but bright longer trails are further away through and past Orion, Procyon and Canis Major. The 2012 Geminid shower (http://www.imo.net/live/geminids2012/) was good but not as good as last year (clouded out) which was 50% better.

I have 2 GIF's, First one with the -3 mag meteor (14th 2251 local time) showing Orion and Jupiter, second GIF shows a 1st mag meteor (13th) with Gemini at image top and Betelgeuse bottom right.

There is also a collection of all my bright Geminids including brighter Sporadics here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40231940@N03/8276019295/in/photostream).

Thanks, John.

[Astroman]

Nice work John, shows them really well.

[Derek Klepp]

Thanks John been watching some in the early hours.

[ourkind]

that's excellent I can't stop watching the first gif, the train is clearly visible. Great capture and I relly enjoyed watching your flickr compilation :thumbsup:

[naskies]

Great captures, John! Love the train too.

[Matt Wastell]

Thanks for the animations John - quite a show!