Geminid Meteors
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Teide National Park Tenerife
This was just one of many meteors I captured from this very spot. I had an amazing time in Tenerife and met lots of nice people with the same interests in astronomy & photography. there was a party atmosphere up in the national park Los Rocques area. However it was so cold, a couple of my cameras froze up!
this cabin/house may have been built in the 1890's, it has seen many nights like this. 5 years ago the lean-to was still intact.
Geminid Meteor Shower
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I'll have a blog post on this trip to follow in the next couple of days!
Dec 14 2012
Appalachian Trail, Cold Mountain Virginia
Milky Way Galaxy
I had a great evening shoot with my friends Jeff Hammond and Darren Barnes on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia last night. The meteor shower peaked nicely about 1 a.m. It was difficult to get meteors in the image that were bright enough to see over the long exposure, but I liked how this one turned out!
Here's an image of the Milky Way in the Sand Creek area in the northern Rockies of Colorado. This is taken from the night of the Orionid Metors and I'm posting it in part as a reminder that the Geminds Meteor Shower is peaking tonight and should still be very good tomorrow night. Plus a new meteor shower might happen this year that coincides with the Geminds, call it a two for one! You can get more tips on viewing the show here:
earthsky.org/tonight/geminid-meteor-shower-peaks-on-night...
Best on BLACK for sure, click image for best view...
Went out in an attempt to get a shot of the Geminid Meteor Shower, But as luck would have it none showed up in any of my images.. I did see a bunch of them with my own eyes..I did get this image as a nice parting gift though. Used a flash light to paint the trees during the exposure. Thanks for looking..
Not much chance of seeing the Perseid meteor shower tonight (although I'll try), so here's one I prepared earlier. A particularly bright Geminid meteor from last December.
Aurora over Kirkjufell, this time with a Geminid meteor. Its a focus stack of five images, taken in the dark, which had to be arranged and positioned using a SpotON torch.
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This is one of the images i took at Captain Cooks Monument North Yorkshire, UK when on a Geminid meteor hunt with David Relph.
The Geminid Meteor Shower is arguably the best meteor shower of the year. I stayed up until 3 AM to get the shot here, taken at the Paint Mines in Calhan, Colorado. Minor light pollution from Colorado Springs is seen at bottom left, with 12 meteors in the frame. It was an amazing sight to behold, with meteors flashing in the night sky causing the ground to get lit up. It was so cool!
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Composite of 8 or 9 meteors caught over the course of an hour at the peak of this year's Geminids meteor shower.
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From my Friday night trip to Sycamore Gap in Northumberland chasing meteors. Only saw a couple of meteors but didn't catch any on camera unfortunately. I did however manage to catch a piece of the Milky Way over the gap
Technical info for those interested: ISO 1000, 14mm Samyang, F2.8, 20 second exposure.
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The 2012 Geminid Meteor Shower over Girraween National Park.
This image is a composite of all the meteors that I managed to capture over a period of about 3 hours.
Although my enthusiasm for shooting the night sky far outweighs my knowledge about what I'm actually looking at, I'm pretty confident that most of the meteors here are in fact Geminids, but some may well just be random sporadics.
Regardless, the night was perfect for it and I couldn't have asked for better conditions - new moon and no clouds of any consequence.
This night was the first time I'd ever had the opportunity to shoot a decent meteor shower, in fact for the last couple of years, each time one was due to occur, the clouds would turn up and ruin it for me - not this time though :)
Also the first real night test for my new D800E - happy to say it more than met my expectations for image quality and high-iso noise properties... and also, quite unexpectedly, battery performance.
About 30 minutes of setup (composing, live view focusing and test shots etc.) and around 3 1/4 hours of constant shooting with the intervalometer, all on one battery!
Technical stuff:
540 x 20" @ ISO 2500 | f/2.8 | 14mm
Nikon D800E
Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8
Quite a bit of (tedious) post work involved to produce this image, but here it is in a nutshell:
Import the base layer into CS6; which is just a single image shot at my chosen settings, but it also includes some light painting - basically just a couple of quick bursts with neutral and warm white LED flashlights.
Images where a meteor was captured were then loaded into CS6 as individual layers, where each layer was then rotated back to to line-up with the celestial point of origin for the Geminid shower (at it's position on the base layer). Then everything other than the meteor was masked out of each individual layer.
I'll also be attempting to put all these frames together into a time lapse movie, when I get around to it (which will probably be in about 2 years :)
Panoramic under the moonlight of the "nuraghe" called "Sa Fraigada" in Monte Cresia, Sardinia. The nuraghe is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia, developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900 and 730 BCE. It was the night of Geminids meteors 14th december. Beautiful clouds moving on it.
Windmill on the eastern plains of Colorado with the Milky Way and a Geminid Meteor. This was near Pawnee Buttes. Clouds were intermittant here and I never got completely clear skies. Still had a lot of fun and learned a lot as this was my first try at meteors. I was also a little bit surprised by the amount of light pollution at this spot.
Lovely rivers of fog low across the moonlit hills. The fog flowed very quickly across the landscape from left to right, and created a painterly wash of gray light outlining the topography.
This was taken during the peak of a spectacular geminid meteor shower, though no meteors are in this shot. The presence of clouds and fog turned out to be a plus, as the meteor's light illuminated the night and the land in a beautiful and unique way.
This pic was taken from Chale on the Isle of Wight in the UK.
I saw hardly any meteors through the evening but as I drove along this road I saw one come down in front of me, so I pulled over in the car and set up my camera.
A few minutes later I saw a HUGE bright blue meteor with an orange tail and within a few seconds of that I saw another 5 or 6 and then nothing for at least another 20 minutes so I packed up and went home!
Star trails and Geminid meteors. Thanks to @Jeff_Frost for letting me shoot at the Circle of Abstract Rituals.
Fujioka, Gunma
Nikon D800 15mm F2.8 ISO1600 15sec
Sigma 15mm F2.8 EX DG DIAGONAL FISHEYE
LEE SOFT No.3
Captured around 20 minutes after the previous picture in my stream.
I left very early that day to capture some falling stars of the Geminids, but the clouds of an active front approached earlier than predicted. Around 2 hours later I was at least lucky enough to see the sunrise. Just a short sunburst and then the sky was completely overcast for the rest of the day.
Far in the distance between the fog and the clouds you can see the Alps of Central Switzerland and Bernese Oberland.
Panorama out of 6 pictures.
The Geminid meteor shower peaked last night. I've captured Fuji with meteors many times in the past. So I went ambitious this time. I tried to capture Fuji and a meteor reflected in Lake Saiko with a standard focal length lens (I usually use wide-angle lenses to capture as many meteors as possible). When I saw this meteor, I was absolutely stunned although I myself intended to capture something exactly like this. (no trimming)
Nikon D800E w/ AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G
This is a 'comet like' star trails edit from the Geminid meteor hunt 2012 with my pal David Relph.
20x30 second exposures
at Lake Yamanaka
Dec. 14, 2014, 4:26am
F3.2 20s ISO800
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氷点下10℃の山中湖にて。
湖面に、富士山のほかに、オリオン座も流星も少しですがうつっています♪
月明かりに浮かぶ富士山と流星との共演、本当に美しい夜でした！！
"from Gemini with love"
This weekend brings one of the greatest shows on earth. Fortunately, we here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia should have mostly clear skies, and a moon that doesn't rise until well into the night, giving us ample time to shoot the streaking meteors.
This photo was taken two years ago near the Blue Ridge Music Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I used to live way out in the boondocks so it was a very short drive. This year, I'll be up on Wilburn Ridge. Good luck to anyone who watches or photographs the shower. I look forward to seeing some sweet photos in the coming days! - Michael
Spirograph Startrails. This is what happens when you try to do star photography near the Philly Airport.
Another from the night I went chasing Geminids meteors over at Sycamore Gap on Hadrians Wall.
I saw some meteors, but none were strong enough to catch on camera, probably partly due to the moon rise that happened just as I arrived at the gap. The moon did however help light up the foreground!
The light trail seen in this shot is from a passing plane heading back to Newcastle Airport I think.
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camping on richmond ridge near aspen colorado during the 2012 Geminid meteor shower
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If you are interested in trying to photograph some meteors this weekend check out my blog post with a few basic tips on how to capture some 10 tips for photographing meteor showers
The Earth is about to pass through a stream of debris from the comet 209P/LINEAR this memorial weekend. We don't know what the comet looked like back in the 1800's when the comet passed through this area of space. There is a good chance we could be in for a meteor shower this weekend.
On Saturday I made the long drive from the Grand Canyon to find clear skies in Nevada for the Geminids meteor shower. I picked a remote location called Little Finland but underestimated the time it would take to get there, thankfully on the way was this location called Whitney Pockets. After a fantastic sunset and rainbows from the clearing storm I set up for my long night of shooting. I setup both the Fuji XT-1 and the X-E1, I ended up catching a lot more meteors with the X-E1 facing East in the early evening. Fortunately it was a beautiful calm night and I was able to lay outside in my sleeping bag watching the meteors for several hours before I dozed off.
In all I captured 24 meteors, I composited them all into one shot and corrected their rotation to match the radiant of the background image. Taken with a Rokinon 12mm f/2 at f/2 ISO 6400, 25s when the moon was down, and 15s when the moon rose. For the forgeground I used one light painted exposure.
I've been planning a Moab trip for about the last two months and tomorrow will be the second time I've had to cancel and reschedule. It would have been a perfect weekend to head down there, with a 60% Waning moon setting at midnight and the Geminid Meteor Shower in the forecast. Unfortunately, the weather forecast as I type is for a winter storm to roll in just about when we'd have gotten there. We'll still go out tomorrow, but stay as far east as we can, delaying the weather as long as we possible and hope the clouds roll in sometime after we're done. Fingers crossed!
This shot is a reprocess from last January when Brad McGinely and I met up with Mike Berenson to shoot the Quadrantids meteor shower. Both Brad and Mike caught some great meteors that trip, but due to a weak battery I mostly got skunked. I did however, get a number of 30 second exposures which were perfect for a new night sky processing technique I recently learned and used on this photo. It's pretty remarkable how many stars were able to be pulled out of the shot(s) and how little noise there is. I will be playing with this technique more and more on my up coming night adventures now that I know how to shoot for it.
I hope you all have a great weekend.