Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks
Dec 9, 2020 12:03:31 #
The Geminid Meteor Shower will be Sunday night, December 13 into Monday morning, December 14, 2020. With no interference from moonlight, this should be a good year for the Geminids. Under ideal conditions this shower should peak at 140 to 150 visible meteors per hour.
Anyone have some good trick to use for shooting meteors?
Anyone have some good trick to use for shooting meteors?
Dec 9, 2020 12:47:57 #
Dec 9, 2020 12:56:26 #
In a dark place, with a 24mm 2.8 lens wide open, point in a general direction set for 20 second exposures at ISO 800, with the intervalometer set to keep firing for a half hour. Wherever you point it, the meteors will be flaming all over where it is NOT pointed, but after you reposition the camera, they will start brilliantly be shooting in the location you just moved it FROM! (My experience...)
Dec 10, 2020 00:14:40 #
Stephen Lance wrote:
The Geminid Meteor Shower will be Sunday night, December 13 into Monday morning, December 14, 2020. With no interference from moonlight, this should be a good year for the Geminids. Under ideal conditions this shower should peak at 140 to 150 visible meteors per hour.
Anyone have some good trick to use for shooting meteors?
Anyone have some good trick to use for shooting meteors?
For the Perseids earlier this year I shot with the following:
Sony A7R3 with Tamron 17-28 f/2.8 with the focal length 17mm
manual
f/3.5
shutter speed 5 sec
ISO 1000
intervalometer shooting at 8 sec intervals
pointed camera to the radiant where the meteors will be coming from.
There were faint clouds that were enough to obscure good portions of the sky. I'm going to repeat the procedure this week with the A7R3 but will also use my Olympus E-M1 with the 8mm fisheye.
Dec 10, 2020 09:53:38 #
Ain't it the truth. Also, if you are up North shooting the auroras, the best ones come out after you go to bed. Shot at Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba - not my best one though. Note that it was shot on the night of a full moon! And the old rocket launcher in the center of the photograph.
Dec 10, 2020 22:15:57 #
ELNikkor wrote:
In a dark place, with a 24mm 2.8 lens wide open, point in a general direction set for 20 second exposures at ISO 800, with the intervalometer set to keep firing for a half hour. Wherever you point it, the meteors will be flaming all over where it is NOT pointed, but after you reposition the camera, they will start brilliantly be shooting in the location you just moved it FROM! (My experience...)
Dec 11, 2020 08:10:26 #
Leitz
Loc: Solms
Stephen Lance wrote:
The Geminid Meteor Shower will be Sunday night, December 13 into Monday morning, December 14, 2020. With no interference from moonlight, this should be a good year for the Geminids. Under ideal conditions this shower should peak at 140 to 150 visible meteors per hour.
Anyone have some good trick to use for shooting meteors?
Anyone have some good trick to use for shooting meteors?
You can generally find good advice on astronomical photography in the Astronomical Photography Forum:
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