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

[Leo S]

Thanks Mike,

I've been meaning to get a shot of the cameras, but usually it's too 
dark by the time I've set up and all my tripods are already being used. 
It's a bit of a "rag-tag" setup, but I'll try and find a way during the 
Quadrantids if we get clear skies!

Clear skies!
Leo


Mike Hankey wrote:
> 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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