The Orionid Meteor Shower

[batema]

The Orionid meteor shower, usually shortened to the Orionids, is the most prolific meteor shower associated with Halley's Comet. The meteors you see in the image are the remnants of the debris from Hayley’s comet that enter the Earth’s atmosphere as the Earth passes through the debris field on its way around the Sun.
The Orionids are so-called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Orion, but they can be seen over a large area of the sky. Orionids are an annual meteor shower which peaked around the 21st October.
This is 9 images stacked together. Canon 6D with a Samyang 14mm lens on a Vixen Polarie. It was a mission to process this but I am happy I have an image of this event. Please don’t zoom in too close or the noise will deafen you.
Link to my high resolution image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/134809098@N04/22413343972/in/datetaken/

[Octane]

Well done, Mark!

It was clouded out 3 days in a row here. My grand plans were thwarted!

I can't complain too much as I needed sleep.

H

[RickS]

Looks good, Mark! Must have been a spectacular treat visually as well.

[Phil Hart]

That's a good effort Mark. It's really not that easy to do.

If you want to, you can go back and capture a longer image of Orion to reduce the noise and register the meteor images against it.

Phil

[astronobob]

Grouse capturing Mark, too cloudy here for a dark sky trip, but great to see your imaged results - awesome :thumbsup:

[Rod771]

That's awesome, Mark! I like Phil's idea, that would be great.