Geminid Meteor Shower

Brenda emailed to alert me to the Geminid Meteor Shower which was going to peak later in the night of December 13. So I made some photos in my yard before retiring, at 1:30 AM, and early the next morning. It was partly cloudy at 1:30 but clear the other times.

At 8:20 PM shooting straight up I got many streaks in a 30 second exposure. Surprisingly they were all roughly parallel as can be seen from this photo below. This was shot with a 24mm lens on a full-frame camera at f/2.8 and ISO 1600.

The image below was made just before 6 AM December 14. It is a blend of six 8 second exposures, each at 24mm, f/3.5, and ISO 3200. The photos I blended were chosen from a series of 8 second exposures taken 16 seconds apart since the camera did an automatic 8 second “dark” exposure for noise reduction. The camera triggered repeatedly automatically because I set it for continuous (burst) shooting and locked the electronic cable release.

In case you missed it, my photos of the Transit of Venus are HERE.

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