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The 2010 Geminids was a beautiful meteor shower but not as active as the last year, at least from my observing longitude. Between 1-2 am local time on December 14th the shower peaked to about ZHR 100.

Even the clouds could not stop the Geminids from putting on a great display this year, I watched again last night the 14t -15th, but clouds rolled in, but then clear out again by midnight. I attached a movie showing one burning up through heavy clouds.

I went out again and dispate moonlight it was a really nice show! I captured this Geminid above a 1000 years old churhruin from the time of the vikings. Canon 550D and 11-15 Tamron objective.

Geminid meteor shower in this year was the best shower in past years. Bright and slowly meteors cross the sky every minute. Photo details: Canon EOS 30D, 1000 ASA, 30s exposure, F3.5.

Not exactly a photograph. It's a chart showing meteor counts using Stan Nelson's Space Weather Radio feed and the link here from the home page. I digitally recorded the feed, then counted (manually, using headphones, pencil, and paper!) while playing back the recordings three minutes at a time. I counted each recording twice and averaged the counts, rounding down when necessary. I then applied a 20% error correction to account for sporadics, noise, and difficulty separating multiple echos. Hope this is okay to post.

Another great night in Abisko!! The lights started early, but they had to compete with the moon. As the night went on the moon went to down and the auroras were much easier to see. We were counting roughly 20 to 40 meteors per hour, luckily I was able to catch a few with the new camera. Shot with a Nikon D7000, 1600 ISO, Tokina 11-16 2.8, 5 to 10 second exposures.