Geminids 2011 activity on camera

The Geminids are not bad this year.
Casptured 9 of them on the camera last night depsite the full moon.

I got 29 Geminids on the camera last night, not a very bright shower, Brightest @ Mag -0.2 Faintest @ Mag 2.8

Dose not look good for some captures tonight...

Graham

29 was good Graham considerihng I only got 9.
What lens are you using again?
What direction is the camera aimed at?
I use a 12mm computar lens which covers the sky over north Wicklow and south Co. Dublin.

Much better results last night - captured 39 meteors of which 27 were Geminids.

Hi Michael,

I am using a Computar 8mm F/0.8 on a Watec Ultimate,

Direction is NNE from South Dublin,

I was checking the camera this morning and it looks like there was some update that needed a restart and sadly it froze and I doubt I got much, I check remotely online as the camera is in the parents house so fingers crossed I will get back to restart it manually and hopefully have something to show and of course to turn off ALL UPDATES!! :bricks:

fair play on the 39!! that's excellent stuff!!

Graham.

Sorry to hear re the updates.
I just checked my PC now and it did the same thing last night (14th)!

I was with Apostolis Christou, Armagh yesterday.

He recorded 164 meteors using 3 cameras. One bright one at -6 mag.
Actually, it was quite amazing to see the slow ever increasing brightness on the screen. There was one that appeared to be head on.

When I got home I didn't record any. I still think my camera is at a very low elevation at 20 degrees from the horizon when viewing directly East.

Eamonn
www.kingslandobservatory.com