1) Steady aurora glow was easily visible to the naked eye for several hours above the treetops and below Little Bear, Kp4, images taken during a fifteen-minute period before 0700 UT (just before a radio ALERT: X-Ray Flux exceeded M5 Threshold Reached: 2023 Dec 14 0741 UTC NOAA Scale: R2 - Moderate) show the pink and greenish color glow with a Geminid meteor flash at the bottom right.

2) Earlier, before 0425 UT, another Geminid meteor flash was captured to the left of the Gemini twin's heads, despite some thin clouds passing by.

Many more Geminid meteors were observed. At least four were counted earlier within twenty minutes, and later about one every two minutes. Yesterday, after local midnight, I counted four within a five-minute period. All were generally brighter than the sporadic meteors I see often at other times.