Geminids – Albuquerque NM, UTC 20181214

We are bringing up a network of RMS cameras in New Mexico, USA.  We were fortunate to have seven cameras installed in time to catch one clear night of this year’s Geminid meteor shower. Four of the cameras are in the Albuquerque area (us0001, 2, 6, and 7). Cameras us0008 and 9 are located a bit south in Los Lunas, NM, and our southernmost station (so far) is us0003 in Socorro, NM. Some of our cameras are quite close to the Albuquerque airport, so a lot of plane tracks can show up along with meteors. I have filtered out the worst of the plane tracks,and created stacked composite images of our night-long recordings.

These cameras are operating at around 1500m elevation, so sky glow is not nearly as bad as might be expected with the large population in the Albuquerque metro area. All-in-all,we are very impressed with our RMS IMX291 cameras fitted with 4mm f0.95 lenses.

The table below shows station ID, number of fits files stacked, the number of fits files discarded due to plane or “bug” tracks, then station owner and location:

Station ID	# fits files	Discards	Owner / Location
us0001	1235	144	P.Eschman / Albuquerque near airport
us0002	639	54	P.Eschman / Albuquerque  near airport
us0003	948	64	D.Klinglesmith / Socorro,NM
us0006	576	82	S.Kaufman / Albuquerque, NE Heights
us0007	838	51	R.Hufnagle / Albuquerque, North
us0008	139	0 (some plane tracks remain on this one	S. Welch / Los Lunas, NM
us0009	1070	94	S. Welch / Los Lunas, NM

Here are composite images from us0001, 02, 03, 06, 07, 08, and 09:

We were fortunate to get such great results so early in our learning process. We hope for more great images in the future, some really nice bolides, and maybe even some stuff that reaches the ground. 
            Thanks for looking, Peter Eschman, Albuquerque, NM