Richard Fleet<\/strong>, operated a video camera from Wilcot in Wiltshire throughout the night as part of the UKMON network and has compiled this time lapse showing the\u00a0212 Geminids<\/strong>\u00a0imaged by one fixed camera in the course of the night. The early images show the constellation of Pegasus. The bright object moving through the field of view later is an overexposed image of the Moon (in Aries). \u00a0Gemini comes into view towards the end.<\/p>\n To view the video in full screen, click on the arrows symbol at the bottom right of the window.<\/p>\n DSLR imaging<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Richard<\/strong>\u00a0also operated a Canon 5D DSLR camera at ISO 3200 with a 28mm lens at f3.5 and captured this image of a bright Geminid passing through Orion in a 5 sec exposure.<\/p>\n The bright “star” in the cloud is Jupiter and the Geminid radiant, near Castor, is above the top of the image.<\/p>\n Richard commented that due to the moonlight he had to take shorter exposures than normal and this led to him filling up his memory cards faster than usual.<\/p>\n Visual observations<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Meteor Section Director\u00a0Tony Markham<\/strong>was pleasantly surprised to find skies were particularly transparent from his observing site near Leek in Staffordshire. As a result, the limiting magnitude was 4.8 and this led to better than expected observed rates in the moonlit conditions. In\u00a03 hours and 30 minutes<\/strong>observing (0037-0407UT) on the morning of Dec 14, Tony spotted\u00a092 Geminids<\/strong>\u00a0and 9 sporadic meteors. In addition,\u00a0Richard<\/strong>\u00a0found time away from his imaging work to spot\u00a073 meteors<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a02.5 hours<\/strong>. Similar rates were also reported by\u00a0Tom Banks<\/strong>\u00a0observing from Cheshire.<\/p>\n Tony<\/strong>\u00a0was also able to observe the following night (Dec 14-15) and recorded 7 Geminids and 2 sporadics (0045-0136UT, LM 4.2) before the clouds rolled in. Clearly the Geminids were now in their sharp decline post maximum.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Early analyses published by the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) indicated that this was a typical return of the Geminids and, after correction for the moonlight, the ZHR was probably around 100.<\/p>\n The IMO activity curve can be found \u00a0 here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many areas of the UK enjoyed long clear spells on the night of Geminid maximum (Dec 13-14). There were just two small downsides. Firstly, most observers had to wait until midnight or later for the clouds to disperse and, secondly,Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meteor-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"Geminid\"](\"https:\/\/www.popastro.com\/meteor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/11\/rfleet_20131213gem_c-e1509984313619.jpg\")