Geminid Meteor Shower going STRONG. See from Hawaii

Geminid meteor shower 2023/12/13-14 LIVE from Subaru Telescope MaunaKea, Hawaii

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I am watching at 2:30AM Hawaii time. Seeing at least 300 per hour now. Incredible, with many fireballs.

This is the PEAK. Tune in !!!!!!! This is also a 4K feed.

MaunaKea Observatory Geminid LIVE



Update: At 3:30AM local Hawaii time, rate is an easy observable 600-800 per hour.




Update: at 4:00AM local Hawaii time, rate is back to around observable 300 per hour.
Also, some real bright meteors not in frame of view can be seen reflected off the backs of some of the observatory towers. Pretty awesome!

a reply to: charlyv

I saw a really nice one around 4:30.
Lasted for about 2 seconds and very bright.

Agreed!

Working the night shift on the west coast. During my rounds I scoped more than a few.

Had 3 in a burst of same slice of sky under 10 seconds!

For anyone that missed the Geminid Meteor shower last night, it turned out to be one of the best ever at about 600 to 800 meteors per hour at the peak, and certainly the best I have ever seen. This shower typically puts out about 100-150 per hour, but this one is for the books, as at peak about 600-800 were observable per hour.

This was feed was from Hawaii, and an extremely wide angle astronomical telescope, the Subaru on top of the the summit of Maunakea. The weather was perfect, but usually is up there since it is above cloud level.

There were fireballs galore and many times there were 4 or 5 meteors at the same time with a number of doubles and triples close to each other which are debris pieces of asteroid 3200 Phaeton that leaves them in an orbit around the Sun, like most regular comets do.

It will be good tonight and for a few days as well, but off-peak we can expect at least 50-100 per hour when you have visibility like this.

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Message to Phage
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Hey, if you saw this, please respond since you live there. Do you agree that it was as good as I said it was?
It would also be nice if ATS knew you were still looking.

a reply to: charlyv

Your post inspired be to go have a look. Up visiting my dad in central east Ohio. Much darker than where I live in TX. Stood out back and saw 10 in about 20 minutes, a bit after midnight. 3 or 4 really nice streaks.

Thanks for the inspiration.

The website last night is archiving yesterdays peak.

The LIVE site for today/tonight (14th,15th) is

Geminid peak 2 from Subaru telescope Maunakea Hawaii