The 2004 Geminid Meteor Gallery
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Summary: The best meteor shower of 2004, the Geminids, peaked on Monday, Dec. 13th. [full story]

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  Photographer, Location Images Comments

Jason A.C. Brock,
Roundtimber, Texas, USA
Dec. 13
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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.

Frankie Lucena,
Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
Dec. 13
#1

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.

Dennis Mammana,
Borrego Springs, California, USA
Dec. 13
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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.

Mark Vornhusen,
Gais, Switzerland
Dec. 13
#1

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

Mike O'Leary,
Sunrise Highway, east of San Diego, CA.
Dec. 12
#1

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.

Peter Knol,
Appingedam, The Netherlands, Europe
Dec. 12
#1, more

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

Achim Schaller,
Schauinsland Mountain (Black Forest, Germany)
Dec. 12
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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.

Alan Dyer,
near Gleichen, Alberta, Canada
Dec. 12
#1

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.

Matthias Haenel,
The image was taken from Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Dec. 14
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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.

Robb McCaghren,
Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada
Dec. 13
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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.

more images: from Ivar Marthinusen of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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