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 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.
Thanks, John.
