Geminid meteor pic

[Phil Hart]

Had a great weekend with three clear nights in a row (minus 1.5 hours of cloud on Sunday night) at ASV Heathcote dark sky site.

Geminids were great and got easily my most successful meteor pic:

http://philhart.com/content/geminid-meteor-shower

cheers
Phil

[Octane]

Phil,

Bravo!

That's a wonderful image. Kudos to you.

Also, go team 5D Mark II. A remarkable imaging instrument. ;)

Regards,
Humayun

[alexch]

Phil,
Absolutely superb! Great idea to overlay the images.

Cheers,
Alex

[rogerg]

Brilliant :thumbsup:

F/1.4 & 3200ISO ... that sensitive sure would help pic up the meteors!

[iceman]

Stunning image, Phil. An excellent effort and a fine piece of photography right there.

[Paul Haese]

An excellent compositional image Phil. It has a great effect.

[jjjnettie]

Thanks so much for posting this.
Great work.

[h0ughy]

fabulous result from a talented guy, well done

[Liz]

Wow!! Thats great :thumbsup:

[troypiggo]

Best meteor presentation I've seen. Awesome.

[Garyh]

That`s a top shot Phil!:thumbsup:
I tried something similar when we had a break in the cloud but it was still smokey and only caught one sparodic in 2hrs pointing towards the radiant.
Next time!

[Troy]

good picture
almost feel like I'm there watching the event

[Analog6]

Wonderful! We had rain.

[erick]

Fantastic Phil :thumbsup:

[Quark]

Top job Phil,

Very well presented and a lovely sample of meteors.

Well done.
Regards
Trevor

[Phil Hart]

thanks for the comments folks..

any image like this involves a bit of luck too.. weather was favourable, the photo was taken close to the time of an unexpectedly high peak in Geminid rate (~160 ZHR for northern hemisphere observers) and the nice bright bolide in the corner of the frame also helped ;)

[iceman]

Wow congrats on your APOD, Phil!

Very well deserved!

(it was going to be next weeks IIS IOTW too ;))

[Phil Hart]

that's my first APOD so I'm well stoked about that! :D

[rogerg]

congrats :thumbsup:

[troypiggo]

Congratulations and well deserved!

[Deeno]

Superb!!

[alexch]

Congratulations - well deserved indeed! I'm sure there are many more to come.

Cheers,
Alex

[Inmykombi]

Lovely Image there.
Great work.

[Rick Petrie]

Top notch stuff:thumbsup:

[hotspur]

Thats absolutly outstanding! i agree with Troys' comments

this photo has great scientific merit,i.e it could easily feature

in a top astronomy book etc.to exemplfiy radiet points.

Really a first class picture,and taken on a Vixen mount,thats

doubly good!

well done

Cheers Chris:thumbsup: