The Geminid meteor shower of 2022, showing two bright Geminids leaving yellowish ion trails or "smoke" trains in their wake. The two meteors appeared
The Geminid meteor shower of 2022, showing two bright Geminids leaving yellowish ion trails or "smoke" trains in their wake. The two meteors appeared about 45 minutes apart but are blended together here. Both emanate from the radiant point in Gemini at left, above the stars Castor and Pollux. Orion is at lower right. Mars in Taurus is at top, to the left of Aldebaran and the Hyades star cluster. The Beehive star cluster, M44, is in the lower left corner. I shot the images for this composite from home in Alberta on December 14, 2022, the night after the peak night, which of course was cloudy. This is a stack of 20 images of 500 shot that night — the two frames containing the meteors, plus a total of 18 other frames immediately following the meteor frames that contained the lingering ion trails that each lasted about 5 minutes. All frames were 30 second exposures at f/2 with the Canon RF28-70mm lens and Canon R5 at ISO 800, with the camera on a tracking mount.
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