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12/07/2002 11:54:58 AM · #1 |
from Sky and Telescope magazine:
The Geminid meteor shower is due to peak on the night of December 13ΓΆ€“14, producing as many as 75 slow, graceful Geminids per hour under ideal (very dark and clear) conditions. The bright and characteristically yellow meteors radiate from Castor and Pollux over a period of a few days, increasing steadily before maximum and then dropping off quickly. The meteors that appear after maximum, however, tend to be especially bright.
The best time to look this year will be a couple hours past midnight on the night of the Geminid peak. The Moon is three days past first-quarter phase, setting around 2 a.m. in midnorthern latitudes when the shower radiant is highest in the sky. That Saturday morning, between moonset and dawn, the Geminids should put on a fine show. Bundle up warmly!
james
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12/07/2002 05:39:34 PM · #2 |
I hope someone has the means to get some good shots of this shower. We had aweful weather for the last one, and I didn't even get to see a single one of them.
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12/07/2002 05:58:29 PM · #3 |
Could be a fun 12 hour photo challenge!
BBrrrrrrrr... |
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12/07/2002 10:46:49 PM · #4 |
Im gonna try to get some pics of it...but looks like it will be cloudy here on friday....but the weather can always get better (hopefully)
James
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12/14/2004 01:44:22 AM · #5 |
| Can anyone see it? Too cloudy here. What direction to look? |
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12/14/2004 01:48:09 AM · #6 |
Just went and checked. cleared up here.. Saw one in the 2 minutes I was out. Time to set up the camera
Oh yeah...I am gonna stay warm. set up...test shots. Inside and use the remote. hehehehe
Message edited by author 2004-12-14 01:51:31.
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12/14/2004 02:42:18 AM · #7 |
well that was a bust.....i've been keeping tabs on the weather and its not getting any better i saw ten shot none and it was cloudy right at the peek (for here 12:00am) so forget that.....
just a reminder from an astronomy geek.-
there are the Ursids(in Ursa Minor, more commonly the Little Dipper) the peek is the 22nd of Dec.(there running time will start on the 17th and go through the 26th[Dec.]) the hourly rate is 10meteors+.
also on Jan. 3rd there is the peek of the Quadrantids (the appear in the constellation Bootes) they will run Jan. 1st through Jan5 they're very unpridictable and so there hourly rate can yeald anywhere from 60-200 meteors.
have fun with those since the next showers on from them happen in wonderfuly warm April.
_brando_ ....keep your eyes to the skys....
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12/14/2004 02:56:46 AM · #8 |
I am trying. might have a few. clouds rolling in. shooting ahead of it right now. Gonna try a real olong exposure here now.
Edit at 0100 Clouds interrupted my 15 minute exposure. Lets find out what we got out of my shooting every 30 seconds for the last 45 minutes.
Message edited by author 2004-12-14 03:01:27.
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12/14/2004 03:50:39 AM · #9 |
| NOT A ONE!!! WHOLE HOURS WORTH, AND NOT ONE! Of course they flashed through during the NR time..oh well. See if it clears by dawn. Or maybe som tomorrow night. It is all luck! |
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12/14/2004 05:14:17 AM · #10 |
| Thanks for the reminder. Went out to see what I could see. Saw a nice one 10 seconds after looking up and got a little excited, but five minutes, one more meteor, and a stiff neck later, fog is rolling in and I gave up. :( Maybe later in the week? |
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12/14/2004 10:57:57 AM · #11 |
Weather here was typical for this time of year, cloudy.
I did see a nice bright meteor the other night when I was out with my new scope. Lasted a good 5-6 sec and was quite bright. |
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