(meteorobs) Geminid photos uploaded/did anyone notice anything unusual about the trains this year?

[Mike Hankey]

Leo,

I really enjoyed reading this and looking at your pictures and videos.
Awesome work! I'd love to see a picture of all 5 of your cameras setup
and pointing at the sky.

Thanks,

Mike

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Leo S <l.stachowicz at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This year I made a last minute dash to the New Forest to try and catch
> the peak of the Geminids. Running 5 DSLRs for the first time I was able
> to capture at least 91 meteors between 1900 UT (13th) and 0500 UT
> (14th). I've uploaded some of the brighter meteors captured here, along
> with a few words about the night:
> http://www.btinternet.com/~l.stachowicz/pics/gem09/gem09.htm
>
> This was the best meteor shower I've observed in many years, with many
> negative magnitude Geminids, and very few lulls in activity.
>
> Perhaps it's just me, but did anyone else notice more persistent trains
> than usual? Although there were not too many fireballs that I saw, even
> dimmer (but still negative magnitude) Geminids seemed to leave long
> lasting trains. However, I didn't notice this as much until I went
> through the photos from the night, and virtually every reasonably bright
> meteor seemed to leave a train!
>
> I've made some animations out of the image sequences that I captured.
> The best example is a Geminid point fireball (or very close to it),
> which I only noticed because of the train produced in the following  frames.
>
> Download Gem09_pointfireball.mpg: http://www.mediafire.com/?x2zt2gjjyyn
>
> 15 sec exposures (+1 sec approx. between exposures) x 23 frames (not
> including meteor frame)  = 368 seconds  (6 minutes and 8 seconds)
>
> Location: The New Forest, UK (50.8361,-1.72823)
> Date/time of start of frame: 2009-12-14 1:10:37 UT (+/- 1sec)
> Camera: Canon EOS 20D
> Lens 24mm 1.4L Mk1@ 1.4
> ISO: 800
>
>
> Download Gem09train_seq01.mpg: http://www.mediafire.com/?yhri2nw2h4g
>
> 20 sec exposures (+1 sec approx. between exposures) x 9 frames (not
> including meteor frame)  =189 (3 minutes and 9 seconds)
>
> Location: The New Forest, UK (50.8361,-1.72823)
> Date/time of start of frame 2009-12-13 21:39:38 UT (+/- 1sec)
> Camera: Canon EOS 1DsII
> Lens 35mm 1.4L @ 1.4
> ISO: 800
>
>
> Download Gem09train_seq02.mpg: http://www.mediafire.com/?zlm3mjyzghm
>
> 15 sec exposures (+1 sec approx. between exposures) x 22 frames (not
> including meteor frame)  = 352 (5 minutes and 52 seconds)
>
> Location: The New Forest, UK (50.8361,-1.72823)
> Date/time of start of frame: 2009-12-14 00:04:22 UT (+/- 1sec)
> Camera: Canon EOS 1DsII
> Lens 35mm 1.4L @ 1.4
> ISO: 800
>
> Clear skies,
> Leo
>
>
>
>
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