Newbury Astronomical Society: MeteorWatch

The Geminid Meteor shower was the target of MeteorWatch on Twitter and Facebook.

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Title: Sporadic meteor Description: A faint sporadic meteor taken from the Astrobunker in Berkshire during the Geminid meteorwatch 2009. Title: Sporadic meteor Taken by: Richard Fleet (Newbury AS) Link to original image.	Title: Geminid Meteor Description: A Geminid Meteor taken during Moon watch in 12th December 2009 Title: Geminid Meteor Taken by: Richard Fleet (Newbury AS) Link to original image.	Title: Geminid Meteor Description: A geminid meteor taken from the Astrobunker during Meteorwatch December 2009 Title: Geminid Meteor Taken by: Richard Fleet (Newbury AS) Link to original image.	Title: Geminid Meteor over Monument Valley Description: A beautiful bright Geminid Meteor over Monument Valley, USA. Title: Geminid Meteor over Monument Valley Taken by: Wally Pacholka (AstroPics.com, TWAN) Location: Monument Valley, USA Link to original image.
Title: Orion over the Astro bunker Description: A lovely picture of Orion over the Astrobunker during Meteor watch in December 2009. Title: Orion over the Astro bunker Taken by: Meteorwatch December 2009 (Newbury AS) Link to original image.	Title: Geminid Meteor Description: A Lovely Geminid meteor cruisin into Orion. Title: Geminid Meteor Taken by: Tagoshu Location: Unknown Link to original image.	Title: Geminid Meteor heading for Orion Description: Lovely composition with Orion hanging in the sky being admired by Dr. Lucy Rogers and Encke the dog. A Geminid Meteor flashes across the sky through Monoceros. Title: Geminid Meteor heading for Orion Taken by: S J Griffiths Location: Isle of Wight, UK Link to original image.	Title: Geminid Meteor in Orion Description: A Geminid meteor streaks a beautiful image of Orion. Title: Geminid Meteor in Orion Taken by: Bill Pinnell Location: Kingston-upon_Thames, UK Link to original image.
Title: Geminid Meteor from timelapse film Description: A Geminid meteor still from a time lapse video image. Title: Geminid Meteor from timelapse film Taken by: Meteorwatch December 2009 (Newbury AS) Link to original image.	Title: Geminid Meteor in Hydra Description: The Geminids appear pretty active tonight (December 12/13). Here's one caught on camera close to the star Alphard in Hydra. Title: Geminid Meteor in Hydra Taken by: Pete Lawrence Location: Selsey, West Sussex, UK Link to original image.	Title: Geminid in star trails Description: A Geminid Meteor streaks through star trails arounf the North pole star. Title: Geminid in star trails Taken by: Astromeg Link to original image.