Info required: Geminid meteor shower

[Vinod Raghavan]

Hello,

What is the best time for viewing Geminid meteor shower in Bangalore? As per the information in the net, shower peaks on Dec 13th and 14th this year. Some sites suggest 9pm to midnight, while some say the best time is pre-dawn.

Regards,
Vinod

[Rakesh Nath]

Hi

has been unredemably cloudy yesterday and seems so today too, lets hope we have some good weather

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[Narendra Gor]

We will watch from 11.00 pm to 01.00 Am to day

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[keerthi kiran]

I saw about 15 meteoroids from 00:00 to 01:00.
4 were from the direction of Gemini. Others were from Taurus, Auriga, Orion, Canis major.

Regards,
Keerthi.

[sarath prabhav]

I saw abt 51 meteoroids from 4:37 to 5:30.

it was an amazing experience

I was watching from 

Lat:::  9.091622026196495

long::  76.68610721826553 

[Rakesh Nath]

Spending some solitary hours does have its gains :-/i watched a
beautiful fireball streak the red sky and disintegrate i could resolve
the fragments amazing sight

[Prakhar Misra]

I could see some of them too.splendid sight indeed!...

with lv and much respect,
Prakhar  :)

[ravi babu]

Hi

I saw 11 shooting stars last night over a period of one and a half hours.

From 11:30 pm to 1 am..

It was really awesome..

Cool feeling to have observed a celestial event!!

Best Regards

Ravi Babu S

[Saandip.N.G]

Hi All.

It was really splendid..

I saw around 7 showers yesterday night.

 

I observed first one (to my knowledge) was at 11:25PM, second was 11:45, third was 12:00 night & next was at 12:10 & 12:15.

It was strange that it was in equal reducing time of 20mins,15mins,10min 5mins of gap between showers.

 

The one which passed thorough Orion towards south was the brightest.

 

Regards

Saandip.N.G

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[Amar Sharma]

Yesterday Akarsh and Me had been to a private observing session, with his 17.5" to a dark site (quite sneakingly :D) We returned, slept today for couple hours and are leaving once again for observing in sometime. Even though the agenda was deep sky for both of us, Akarsh managed to get a few streakers looking up, details of which he will post. I was on the other hand more focussed not looking up even when granted a session ON the day of Geminids, but straight through the eyepiece at those faint fuzzies. In summary what I can say is, the Geminids from our end were disappointing. Two exciting observing reports coming up tomorrow.

[Rakesh Nath]

Ah yes looking forward to your report what did you see yest though?

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[Akarsh Simha]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 09:20:43AM +0030, Rakesh Nath wrote:
> Ah yes looking forward to your report what did you see yest though?

I wasn't observing the Geminids very seriously either. I saw some 17
odd meteors in an effective period of 1.5 hours. Some nice streakers
and semi-fireballs. Nothing very exciting though.


Off topic stuff, since Rakesh asked for it:

Highlights of the night: We were seeing random galaxies wherever we
pointed the scope. Nothing interesting. I saw a very good M 51 with
spiral arms, but Amar opines that the 12" at Yelagiri was better, and
I agree. We saw a lot of galaxies. We saw mottled structure in NGC
7739. Nothing really picturesque, though. Skies weren't very dark.


Well, I didn't post this here, but Naveen and I saw Horsehead Nebula
last Friday night, but it wasn't very impressive.

Regards
Akarsh

[Suresh Randadath]

Hi,

 

Reading about all your expereinces on watching the shower has been exciting. Could you please let me know which direction of the sky one should be looking to watch the shower?

 

Thanks

Suresh

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[Saandip.N.G]

Near Orion ( Three stars in single line slanting).

 

If you an starter check this link below.

 

http://www.quietbay.net/Science/astronomy/nightsky/

[Prakhar Misra]

@ AKARSH sir ,

since u people saw galaxies and nebulae,it seems tht the telescope u had was a very powerfull one. more info please regarding the deals and the different types of telescopes availaible and the best buy etc. and how do u know in which direction would a particular nebula or a galaxy be?? ....