Geminids meteor shower

[Antu]

Hi guys,

Despite the full Moon, the Geminids have been spectacular ! :) We witnessed quite some number of relatively bright ones, and when the Moon set the view was incredible. Here is the image from the night of 13/14 Dec (where we expected the maximum of their activity) obtained from Chile. The total exposure time was ~4 hours using Canon 6D and Nikko 14-24.

Higher-resolution version is here: http://0e33611cb8e6da737d5c-e13b5a910e105e07f9070866adaae10b.r1 5.cf1.rackcdn.com/Yuri-Beletsky-geminids_yb_2013_1387135132.jpg

Thanks for watching !

[prokyon]

Wow, awesome! What a landscape, what a sky and so many Geminids.

[ourkind]

Beautiful captures Antu. Well done!

[iceman]

Incredible image, well done!

[leon]

As mentioned, beautiful image indeed.

Leon

[gregbradley]

That really is a superb image.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Really Yuri...? I mean, couldn't you find a clearer sky with a more dramatic astronomical foreground? :shrug: and I don't see a comet anywhere in there...lift your game :lol:

Amazing! :eyepop:

Mike

[Larryp]

Fabulous image!

[astroron]

Great picture :), but there really wasn't a lot of meteors over 4 hours. I counted 32 in all, or about 8 an hour,which really isn't a lot.
Makes my five in one hour seem reasonable after all.
Cheers:thumbsup:

[Phil Hart]

Superb work (again) Yuri.

Is there a touch of Lightroom clarity in the processing of the foreground or is my laptop monitor playing tricks on me as usual?



Still takes a moderately bright meteor to show up on camera. Visually you could hope to see a few more and your eyes can cover a much larger area of sky. If you got five in an hour in a single camera field of view then you were doing pretty well too.

Phil

[colinmlegg]

Lovely view Yuri. You got a lot more than I did for same period in WA. My north facing cam only got a hand full.

[astroron]

Thanks Phil, I would have thought there would be more.:question:
Cheers:thumbsup:

[colinmlegg]

Ron, it proves how good the eye/brain combo is. Even at f/1.4, iso 6400 the eye does way better than a camera at 1/60 second. You would need good quality iso 102400 to get close.

[Derek Klepp]

Thanks Antu I forgot all about them.

[noeyedeer]

beautiful! that's almost calendar worthy! nice image Antu

[Antu]

Thanks, guys ! Well, there are few factors why the number of meteors on the image isn't outstanding - apart from the full Moon, many of the recorded ones are actually a bit faint to be well visible on the stacked frame. Also, the lens doesn't cover full sky thus we were loosing quite some of them too. It's a real pity because I saw few very bright ones which were just a bit outside of the FOV :shrug: Visually the meteor rate was similar to the reported values though.

Thanks for the comments ! I am glad you liked the image :)

Was there anyone observing the meteors from Australia ?

[Retrograde]

Brilliant!

[multiweb]

This is excellent. Inspiring. :thumbsup: The trails combined with the ground and horizon give a sense of scale and how huge this dark sky of yours is.

[Antu]

Thanks, guys ! The image managed to get to today's NASA APOD : http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131223.html :)

[owl]

Just superb!