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.
Really Yuri...? I mean, couldn't you find a clearer sky with a more dramatic astronomical foreground? and I don't see a comet anywhere in there...lift your game
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.
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Is there a touch of Lightroom clarity in the processing of the foreground or is my laptop monitor playing tricks on me as usual?
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Originally Posted by 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
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.
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
Thanks Phil, I would have thought there would be more.
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Thanks Phil, I would have thought there would be more.
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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.
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 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 ?
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.
and I don't see a comet anywhere in there...lift your game 
