Meteor showers. 

2004 The first six images on this page were taken on the night of 10th/11th August, 2004 between  22.00hrs and 02.30hrs BST (21.00hrs and 01.30hrs UT) using a Mintron 12V1C EX and a 2.8mm f/2.8 CS mount CCTV lens giving around 90 degrees field of view.  Each image is a sum of 128 images summed within the camera and captured using K3CCDTools.  The night was misty verging on fog with clouds crossing.  Registax was used to find the images with meteors on them and save them.  The Gimp was used to darken the image using curves and a Gaussian blur of 3 pixels to finalize.
Mintron	Mintron	Mintron	Mintron	Mintron	Mintron
2005 These next set of images are of the August Perseids in 2005.  The 10th are from home in NE Coventry,  UK and the images from the 12th are from Birdingbury, UK.
SC3 10 Aug 05	Mintron 12 Aug 05	SC3 12 Aug 05	SC3 12 Aug 05	SC3 12 Aug 05	SC3 12 Aug 05
SC3 12 Aug 05
18th/19th  November,  2006 I started out the night at around 22.00 UT for visual observing the meteors as the maximum was not expected until the early hours so I set up the cameras but did not start them up until just before midnight  and finished just before 04.00 UT using 2 cameras.   A Mintron 12V1EX with a 2.8mm f/2.8 C lens capturing with AstroVideo (COAA) at 128 frames integration (2 1/2 seconds) and an SC3 ( ICX424AL-E) modified webcam with its original lens (think this is f2.0-f2.8 ish) capturing with K3CCDTools set to capture 4 seconds for 1200 frames. I used Registax 4 to find the frames within the AVI's. The first 6 images are from the Mintron capture.  Time start -time end of AVI capture are given in UT. The second set of 6 images are from the SC3 camera.   K3CCDTools puts down a text log file so I can see the exact time of each frame started.  One little program I use is called Atomic Clock Sync (freeware 629 kbs) which I use to set the computers clock before the start of a capture.
Mintron 23.46-00.37	Mintron 23.46-00.37	Mintron 23.46-00.37	Mintron 00.49-01.40	Mintron 00.49-01.40	Mintron 02.37-03.28
SC3 00.22	SC3 01.09	SC3 01.26	SC3 01.50	SC3 02.09	SC3 03.32
If you look at the images from the 18th and 19th November above you will see there is a lot of these meteors that are sporadics but also note that there seems to be a few coming from the Leo Minor region.  I have searched on the internet and found no minor shower coming from that area. Do you know if there is such a shower who's radiant is in that area ?
2007 The first 15 images on this page were taken on the night of 12th/13th August, 2007 between  22.00hrs and 03.00hrs BST (21.00hrs and 02.00hrs UT) using a Mintron 12V1C EX and a 2.8mm f/2.8 CS mount CCTV lens giving around 90 degrees field of view.  The last 7 images were taken with my Philips ToUcam 740K with the long exposure mode and the ICX424AL chip installed making this mod the SC3.    At 3am time the clouds came in bringing this meteor watch to an end.   This year I was not successful on the nights of the 9th and 10th in capturing any Perseids like I have done for the past couple of years.  Lady Luck was not with me.   On the night of the 12th /13th I believe I saw around 80 meteors in the 5 hours I was out observing.  I did count up to 50 meteors then stopped counting and still had a couple of hours to go.
Mintron 22.40 UT	Mintron 22.43 UT	Mintron 23.26 UT	Mintron 23.28 UT	Mintron 23.32 UT	Mintron 23.36 UT
Mintron 23.40 UT	Mintron 00.52 UT	Mintron 00.53 UT	Mintron 01.27 UT	Mintron 01.29 UT	Mintron 01.58 UT
Mintron 02.28 UT	Mintron 02.29 UT	Mintron 02.43 UT	Mintron 02.29 UT Is either a beautiful sporadic or it comes from a shower I can not identify. Can you ?	The Meteor came up from the western edge of Pegasus from the south and headed up to Cygnus.	SC3 22.42.33 UT
SC3 22.48.09 UT	SC3 23.38.48 UT	SC3 23.42.33 UT	SC3 00.45.45 UT	SC3 01.36.59 UT	SC3 02.26.48 UT

Key:

SC3 = Modified webcam with a black and white Sony ICX424AL
      Camera setting was:-
      Factory setting.
      5 frames per second.
      0 Gama.
      Brightness auto.
      1/25 shutter speed.
      Gain 75%
      Captured 1500 frames per AVI.

Mintron = Mintron 12V1C EX security camera. (black and white)
          Image integrated on camera for 2 1/2 secs = 128 frames at 1/60th of a second.