Here in NJ, 3AM, Dec. 14th, was close to freezing, especially after 3 1/2 hours in the field so I went home. Before then I took 595 images of 15 secs each in an 18 sec block of time using the internal intervelometer of my Nikon D7100 with a 14mm Rokenon lens. I captured 39 meteors of which 2 images had 2 meteors each in the single 15 sec block of time. I stacked 20 of them and that is how the submitted picture came about. Interestingly, one (lower left quarter of image) of the 20 came from a different radiant than the 19 Geminid meteors. My colleague and I figured we saw close to 4 dozen. Best meteor shower since the 2002 Leonid meteor storm.
Great to see. And so glad that you shared your cold hard work. Sharing how you shot these photos increases our knowledge and appreciation of the final result.
DougS
Loc: Central Arkansas
Very interesting! Neat that the one on a different plane, appeared on your shoot!
I wanted to photograph some of that 'shower', but could not, sigh... Maybe this year!
saidel42 wrote:
Here in NJ, 3AM, Dec. 14th, was close to freezing, especially after 3 1/2 hours in the field so I went home. Before then I took 595 images of 15 secs each in an 18 sec block of time using the internal intervelometer of my Nikon D7100 with a 14mm Rokenon lens. I captured 39 meteors of which 2 images had 2 meteors each in the single 15 sec block of time. I stacked 20 of them and that is how the submitted picture came about. Interestingly, one (lower left quarter of image) of the 20 came from a different radiant than the 19 Geminid meteors. My colleague and I figured we saw close to 4 dozen. Best meteor shower since the 2002 Leonid meteor storm.
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Great photograph!
Thank you for explaining your workflow and sharing with us!
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
saidel42 wrote:
Here in NJ, 3AM, Dec. 14th, was close to freezing, especially after 3 1/2 hours in the field so I went home. Before then I took 595 images of 15 secs each in an 18 sec block of time using the internal intervelometer of my Nikon D7100 with a 14mm Rokenon lens. I captured 39 meteors of which 2 images had 2 meteors each in the single 15 sec block of time. I stacked 20 of them and that is how the submitted picture came about. Interestingly, one (lower left quarter of image) of the 20 came from a different radiant than the 19 Geminid meteors. My colleague and I figured we saw close to 4 dozen. Best meteor shower since the 2002 Leonid meteor storm.
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Get shot of the Geminid meteor shower.
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