This was the best I've ever seen the Gemenids perform. The number of meteors was very impressive. It was worth braving the 22 degree weather. Saw three meteors at once at times. Photo details: Canon Digital Rebels, 1600 ASA, 30s-1min exposures. Andromeda, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter & Comet Machholz all were extra delights as well.

This Geminid meteor was very bright and its debris stood plastered in the sky for several seconds.I used a Canon AE-1 with a 50mm lens at F/1.8 for 30 seconds on Kodak 800 max film.

A brilliant Geminid appears to breaking up the perpetual tiff between Orion and Taurus. Canon 10D, 14mm f/2.8 lens, ISO800, 20-s exposure.

Geminid Fireball taken with a Olympus 4040Z camera @f1.8

I was just wraping up an excellent night of imaging and thought I would get a shot of the Zodiacal light, when this nice Geminid stole the scene. Canon 10D w/ 24mm f/1.4 lens, iso 800, 15sec. Venus is just rising.

radio meteors: A spectogram image made while listening on a 49 MHz TV carrier frequency from a station in Hungary.

It was a great night at our obseratory in the Black-Forest, because fog blocked the light from the cities in the Rhine-Valley. Many meteors were seen visually, even bright ones like the one captured. Horsehead nebula was clearly visible in our 20" and even 12" Dobsonian telescopes using a Hbeta filter and averted vision.

A bright Geminid (during a very active display) caught on one frame of a 275-frame digital time lapse movie (covering 5 hours of sky motion) taken with a tripod-mounted Canon Digital Rebel DSLR, using an intervalometer timer. This frame is a 1-minute exposure at f/2.8 and ISO800 with a 16mm lens. Some fainter Geminids were caught on other frames but this was one of the brightest seen that night and by sheer good luck was also nicely placed in the frame. This was by far the best shower since the Leonids of 2001.

One Geminid between some cloud holes. In the back you see the lightning of a thunderstorm. The cropped exposure was done with a CANON 300D - 18mm - 3 minutes.

One of the brighter Geminids I managed to capture in the early morning of Monday, December 13th, 2004. Unfortunately, I had my camera on the wrong ISO setting, so it didn't turn out as well as I would have liked.