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My take on the Geminid meteor shower
Jan 6, 2022 08:29:42   #
saidel42 Loc: NJ
 
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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Jan 6, 2022 10:00:08   #
Paul Diamond Loc: Atlanta, GA, USA
 
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.

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Jan 7, 2022 10:07:51   #
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!

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Jan 7, 2022 10:17:37   #
JayRay Loc: Missouri
 
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.
Here in NJ, 3AM, Dec. 14th, was close to freezing... (show quote)


Great photograph!
Thank you for explaining your workflow and sharing with us!

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Jan 12, 2022 11:58:36   #
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.
Here in NJ, 3AM, Dec. 14th, was close to freezing... (show quote)


Get shot of the Geminid meteor shower.

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Jan 14, 2022 10:38:19   #
DickC Loc: NE Washington state
 
I like it!!

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