A composite of the 2017 Geminid meteor shower, from the peak night of December 13, with the radiant in Gemini, at centre, rising in the northeast at t
A composite of the 2017 Geminid meteor shower, from the peak night of December 13, with the radiant in Gemini, at centre, rising in the northeast at the beginning of the night. Meteors are streaking from the radiant point above Castor in Gemini, with meteor streaks longer the farther they were from the radiant point. The Milky Way runs diagonally across the frame, from Auriga, at top, to Canis Minor, at bottom. This is a stack of 40 images, each a 30-second exposure at with the Rokinon 14mm SP lens and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 6400. The images are the 40 frames with meteors out of 357 taken over 3 hours and 16 minutes from 7:54 pm to 11:10 pm MST. The ground is a stack of 8 images, mean combined to smooth noise. The background base-image sky is from one exposure. The camera was on a fixed tripod, not tracking the sky. I rotated and moved each image in relation to a base image and around Polaris at upper left, in order to place each meteor at approximately the correct position in relation to the background stars, to preserve the effect of the meteors streaking from the radiant near Castor at centre of the frame. Taken from Quailway Cottage, near the Arizona Sky Village in southeast Arizona, with a view looking northeast, toward the nearby towns of Lordsburg and Deming, NM adding the sky glows.
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Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
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