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Geminid Meteor Shower

Update 124-12-2024:

Replaced image with satellites removed.

 

My first attempt at recoding a meteor shower. These are the Geminids which are named after the constellation from which they appear the originate from. I recorded some 240 images over a 2 hour period between 2 am and 4 am. I discarded all that did not have a meteor in the image. In the end I only used 14 images plus one for the foreground. The foreground was shot at around 00:30 am when there was almost 50% moonlight. Also visible in this image are the constellation Orion and the planets Jupiter and Mars. Hover your mouse over the image to see where I marked these.

 

Pre-processed in DxO PhotoLab, Stacked and blended using Affinity Photo. The entire post processing of meteors took a number of hours and has been a huge learning curve for me.

 

The sky images were 30 sec each, tracked, f/2.8, ISO 1250

The foreground was 5 min, f/9, ISO 100

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Uploaded on December 11, 2024
Taken on December 10, 2024