Geminids 2007

The Geminids are one of the finest meteor streams visible. The combination with counts of more than 100 meteors an hour and the long winter nights alway's give good results for visual observers. This year I stayed with my friends Carl Johannink, Michel Vandeputte, Inneke Verkerken and Simon Vanderkerken in Portugal to escape the usual bad weather in the Netherlands. There we had a good look on the Geminid meteorstream. I counted 1500 meteors during two nights. This two nights I also used a Canon 40D with an Canon EF 2.8/15 mm fish eye lens. I captured almost 140 meteors! Best ones are shown here. Best view is to see the pictures in "original" mode. The non-astronomical pictures were made by Michel Vandeputte, Belgium.

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11 december 2007: in the evening we arrived at Carl's home at Gronau. Photo: Michel Vandeputte &...	12 december 2007: flight to Lissabon, Portugal. Photo: Michel Vandeputte.	12 december 2007: renting a car by AVIS Photo: Michel Vandeputte.	12 december 200": we found a good location to observe the Geminids. Clouds of a weak coldfront...	IMG 2379	Evening dinner: pizza's and lasagna! Photo: Michel Vandeputte.
Evora at daylight. Deep blue skies ;-) Photo: Michel Vandeputte.	Enjoying the sun! 20 degrees C. Photo: Michel Vandeputte.	Photo: Michel Vandeputte.	An almost 2000 year Roman Temple. Photo: Michel Vandeputte.	Photo: Michel Vandeputte.	Photo: Michel Vandeputte.
Evening dinner and getting ready for a night full of Geminids! Photo: Michel Vandeputte.	Comp 13 12 2007 2337-0021UT 5	Comp 13 12 2007 0049-0056UT 2	Comp 13 12 2007 0318-0412 7	Comp 13 12 2007 0107-0142UT 6	2007 12 14 0126UT -2Gem horizon
2007 12 14 0322UT -2Gem horizon	Comp 13 12 2007 0345-0600UT 9	2007 12 14 2310UT -3Gem cmi	Breakfast after a night of hard work... Photo: Michel Vandeputte.	Photo: Michel Vandeputte.	Photo: Michel Vandeputte.

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