The Geminid meteor shower of December 13, 2017 in a view framing the winter Milky Way from Auriga (at top) to Puppis (at bottom) with Gemini itself, t
The Geminid meteor shower of December 13, 2017 in a view framing the winter Milky Way from Auriga (at top) to Puppis (at bottom) with Gemini itself, the radiant of the shower at left, and Orion at right. The view is looking southeast to the Peloncillo Mountains in New Mexico though the site at Quailway Cottage is in Arizona, near Portal. This is a composite stack of one base image with the brightest meteor, then 20 other images layered in each with a meteor. The camera was not tracking the sky, so I rotated and moved each of the layered-in frames so that their stars mroe or less aligned with the base layer, to ensure the meteor streak ended up in the correct location with respect to the stars and to the radiant point, illustrating the radiant in Gemini above Castor. The images for this composite were taken over 107 minutes starting at 11:18 pm MST, with 22 images containing meteors picked from 196 images in total over that time. Each exposure was 30 seconds with the Rokinon 14mm SP lens at and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 6400.
Size: 3600px × 5400px
Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
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