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12/13/2006 11:18:27 AM · #1 |
| The annual Geminids meteor shower peaks tonight and tomorrow. The Geminids are unique in that these meteors do not seem to originate from a comet but instead from a rocky asteroid. The meteors tend to be brighter and last longer than those from comets. Start looking about 9:00 PM local time! Peak activity should yield about two meteors per minute. |
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12/13/2006 11:19:12 AM · #2 |
... and rain in my area :(
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12/13/2006 11:20:43 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by idnic:
... and rain in my area :( |
Copy that! :(
The weather was just awesome a few nights ago. I was able to watch the Geminids a few years ago. Still one of the best shows I've seen. |
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12/13/2006 11:20:45 AM · #4 |
| mine too ... been raining for 2 days now ... but, at least it's not snow! |
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12/13/2006 11:22:20 AM · #5 |
Rain here also. Which is making getting a shot for the sky challenge a nightmare.
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12/13/2006 11:26:50 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Bugzeye:
Rain here also. Which is making getting a shot for the sky challenge a nightmare. |
I never even considered it ... I suck at editing my photos ... wouldn't stand a chance in "expert editing" |
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12/13/2006 11:34:11 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Bugzeye:
Rain here also. Which is making getting a shot for the sky challenge a nightmare. |
Likewise. |
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12/13/2006 11:39:26 AM · #8 |
| I might catch some luck. It's been cloudy here for days, but is supposed to clear later today. |
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12/13/2006 11:48:45 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by ElGordo:
Start looking about 9:00 PM local time! |
which time zone you're livin in?
nice weather here in iceland, as it was the last nights. |
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12/13/2006 12:34:57 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Mephisto:
Originally posted by ElGordo:
Start looking about 9:00 PM local time! |
which time zone you're livin in?
nice weather here in iceland, as it was the last nights. |
Time zone should not matter much for meteor showers provided the shower has a duration of 24 or more hours as this one does. But I am in US Mountain time zone. Meteor showers are named for the constellation from which they appear to originate, in this case, Gemini.
Skies will be clear tonight where I live in central New Mexico, so I hope to get some good captures. I use the widest angle lens available, widest aperture, focus manually preset to infinity, and open the shutter 5 minutes at a time, wait 5 minutes for the noise reduction to work and expose again, tripod mounted, of course. I can usually get about 10 exposures before replacing the battery. |
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12/13/2006 01:50:00 PM · #11 |
| Thanks for the info! I missed the Leonids this year due to clouds, but skies should be clear tonight. A good time to view meteors is in the early (but still dark) pre-dawn hours, when the Earth's easterly rotation puts you in more of a direct path of the dust or debris so you have more meteors. |
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12/13/2006 07:49:08 PM · #12 |
| Where's Gemini link for those wondering. :) |
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12/13/2006 11:04:44 PM · #13 |
| Had beautiful clear skies all day; now solid overcast. Will check again at 3:00 AM! |
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12/13/2006 11:08:13 PM · #14 |
| "rain, rain, go away...come again another day..." poo |
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12/13/2006 11:13:15 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Blue Moon:
"rain, rain, go away...come again another day..." poo |
Im with Blue Moon, Poo...
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12/13/2006 11:48:26 PM · #16 |
I saw a shooting star on my way home tonight. Is this shower why?
It was beautiful and clear here. . . .(and I didn't even think about taking a picture, of course I was driving and that isn't really conducive to safe photography)
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12/14/2006 01:37:21 AM · #17 |
| did anyone happen to get some good shots of the shower? |
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12/14/2006 06:50:10 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by sammy_stecchino:
did anyone happen to get some good shots of the shower? |
these are two shots, i took around midnight:
 northern hemisphere
 southern hemisphere
as you can see i wasn't really lucky with the exposures, the shooting stars always appeared before or after an exposure or in a different direction *lol* and due to the temperatures (around minus 10 degrees) i only watched the sky for about one hour, before my batteries and i started to freeeze...
but anyway it was a great show, the most amazing shooting star i saw appeared around 90 degrees above the horizon and disappeared around 20 degrees, for a moment i thought it would crash down on the earth ;) |
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12/14/2006 08:12:35 AM · #19 |
Well at least you got out and saw some, and got some cool star trail shots. I got all my gear ready last night before bed, then got up at 2am to head up into the mountains and try some shots, but I looked outside and saw a bunch of hazy clouds with only a few breaks in them. So I went back to bed for an hour. But, it's probably best I wasn't driving a winding mountain road half asleep in the middle of the night.
On the cold battery thing. I've found once the battery goes dead and you put another in, put the original in your pants pocket close to your body or warm it up somehow. They get some life back into them once they warm back up. |
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12/14/2006 08:39:18 AM · #20 |
Well luck was sort of with me lastnight. We had clear skys and warmer tempetures. But too much light pollution only seen a couple of faint streaks across the sky and they happened while the shutter was closed.
Tonight the Northern Lights are supposed to be out in the area so maybe that will make up for lastnight.
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12/14/2006 08:50:39 AM · #21 |
Good call Bugz. From Spaceweather.com:
AURORA ALERT: Sky watchers everywhere should be alert for auroras on Dec. 14th. That's when a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurled into space by yesterday's X3-flare is expected to hit. NOAA forecasters estimate a 55% chance of severe geomagnetic storms.
Solar activity is expected to remain high for days. Sunspot 930, the source of the incoming CME, has an unstable "delta-class" magnetic field that harbors energy for more X-flares. |
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12/14/2006 08:55:20 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Good call Bugz. From Spaceweather.com:
AURORA ALERT: Sky watchers everywhere should be alert for auroras on Dec. 14th. That's when a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurled into space by yesterday's X3-flare is expected to hit. NOAA forecasters estimate a 55% chance of severe geomagnetic storms.
Solar activity is expected to remain high for days. Sunspot 930, the source of the incoming CME, has an unstable "delta-class" magnetic field that harbors energy for more X-flares. |
Really? :) And with a sky challenge going on, hmmmm... wonder what I´ll be doing tonight :P |
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12/14/2006 09:15:54 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by Larus:
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Good call Bugz. From Spaceweather.com:
AURORA ALERT: Sky watchers everywhere should be alert for auroras on Dec. 14th. That's when a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurled into space by yesterday's X3-flare is expected to hit. NOAA forecasters estimate a 55% chance of severe geomagnetic storms.
Solar activity is expected to remain high for days. Sunspot 930, the source of the incoming CME, has an unstable "delta-class" magnetic field that harbors energy for more X-flares. |
Really? :) And with a sky challenge going on, hmmmm... wonder what I´ll be doing tonight :P |
My first thought when I saw this thread was, 'ooh, Larus could get a really cool shot.' My second thought was, 'bastage will probably get another ribbon with it.' :-P
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12/14/2006 09:20:10 AM · #24 |
hopefully falling asleep on the sofa just before the show starts, Or crying because your camera wont turn on. lol JK. Congrats in advance on the Ribbon Dude. :-)
Originally posted by Larus:
Really? :) And with a sky challenge going on, hmmmm... wonder what I´ll be doing tonight :P |
Message edited by author 2006-12-14 09:21:08.
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12/14/2006 09:31:48 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by Larus:
Really? :) And with a sky challenge going on, hmmmm... wonder what I´ll be doing tonight :P |
Scalvert "accidentally" suspends Larus for a few days... ;-P |
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