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Originally Posted by erick
Weather forecast was cloudy until midnight, clear until dawn, cloudy again.
Actual was clear until 1am, heavy to sporadic cloud until 3:45, clear until 30 min before dawn, then cloudy!
So my best times for viewing were poor. I actually snoozed when the cloud cover looked to be worsening.
But I did see probably 20+ Geminids over the entire period plus sporadics. Some nice and bright. Had the camera clicking away taking 28 sec exposures every 1 min 10 sec over some six hours. I tried different directions. In 342 exposures I have....... wait for it...... 1 Geminid (and many aircraft!).
Have attached the Geminid image I captured. In this case, I had Castor and Pollux in the frame. Almost headon meteors are slow and bright.
I'll have a better search of the other frames later.
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.... 342 images and 1 meteor ..... I took 178 pics and no meteors!!!
Cloudy here last night though.