A Slow meteor with flaring along the ablation path

A slow moving meteor around 9:15pm crossing the sky created a 'arrow'-shaped image above. CLICK ( to have a closer look) at the image to see the 'sudden increase in brightness' along the luminous flaring path.

Meteors - a dozen Dec 18/19 2008

Better sky condition.. Sirius and Canopus 'arced' in the exposure. The bunching revealed more meteors in early am. 6/12 detected in 04-05 am local time,

Geminids 2008 Dec 13/14 - Cloudy sky but.

I thought this year the Gems will be a washout judging from the strings of cloudy sky and rain. Dec 13 saw Venus and the feeble Jupiter in the cloudy sky early evening. So decided to put out my video ccd and let the recorder do all the work.

22:09 first Gem appeared follow by another at 22:30. The composite frames below illustrate the changing apparent radiant as earth rotates bring the constellations across the sky from east to west.

Gems 'cascade' down from the sky. Note a nice terminal flash from a meteor parallel to the TV antennae near the roof. Canopus traced a short arc on lower left - the # dots corresponds to the number of frames stacked in add_max2 command in IRIS.

Meteor 2008 Dec 13 Tally and Time in UT.

14-15 UT count: 1
15-16 UT count: 5
16-17 UT count: 2
17-18 UT count: 3
18-19 UT count: 2
19-20 UT count: 3
20-21 UT count: 3


1. Dec 13 14:09:58

2. 143059
3. 151405
4. 152827
5. 155239
6. 155950
7. 155954
8. 162717
9. 175657
10.184730
11. 185717
12. 190904
13. 195122
14. 195133
15. 200951
16. 202846
17. 203012

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