An early rise this morning (5.00am) proved worthwhile: for once the sky was clear and I quickly found Comet Leonard, close to the bright star Arcturus. For some reason my GPS / Astrotracker wasn't working very well, so there's some 'trailing' of the stars: maybe the 4 minute exposures were a bit optimistic!
During the ninety minutes I was outside, I saw some really bright Geminid meteors: many were multi-coloured, several were brick red. They actually seemed to originate in Ursa Major, but it's probably a bit early for them to have been Ursids.
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