Early Geminid

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

I believe this is an early Geminid meteor. Captured on my homebrew all-sky cam this morning at around 3am.

Looking forward to the peak, although the weather forecast is not looking good!

-Ivan

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Nice capture. do you have details on the all sky camera? I'd like to make one up one day.

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

I put the camera together by adding a fish-eye lens to an Imaging Source DMK21AU04 camera.

I got the lens from AstroShop, it is intended for a G-Star EX camera. It is C-mount, so it attached OK. However, it didn't reach focus, so I partially disassembled it and adapted it using PVC tape!

Running at maximum gain, 2 second exposure gives a nice time-lapse video.

-Ivan