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Meteor was a marque of automobiles offered by Ford Canada from 1949 to 1976. The make was retired for the 1962 and 1963 model years, when the name was used for the Mercury Meteor sold in the States.
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Over 50,000 thousand years ago a meteor approximately 150 feet wide and weighing several hundred thousand tons slammed into the earth near Flagstaff, Arizona. The result of the impact was the creation of a crater which measures 550 feet deep and almost a mile wide.
Meteor Crater is privately owned and is not cheap to visit. The Museum provides an interesting history of crater geology. One theory was that the meteor was buried deep in the earth. The competing theory was that it exploded upon impact. After digging down a few thousand feet, no meteor was found. So the explosion theory won.
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With temperatures in the single digits (F), I elected to photograph this year's Geminids through my window using Fujifilm X-T3 and Fuji's 16-55mm f/2.8 lens. Time lapse ran from 12:51AM to 3:07AM on 13 Dec at 13 secs, f/2.8, iso 1600, 20mm (35mm equivalent full frame). The first meteor recorded looking northeast was at 1:09AM and the last 2:47AM. Some green and red airglow was detected although faint.
I was surprised at the quality of this stacked image (8x13s) considering it was taken through a mostly clean double pane window.
Forecast is for clouds tonight so I'm happy I got something now. The brightest meteor was probably -2 magnitude. Fresh snow storm dropped over 3" a few hours earlier (www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/50716441566/in/photost...).
Picture of the Day x 4
Looks like the surface of the moon perhaps, with multi craters from in-coming meteors. It's actually our conservatory roof yesterday being battered by yet another heavy shower. To me, these showers are more like mini monsoons, with torrents of water falling in a short space of time. I don't need to be told about Climate Change and its dire effects. I can see it happening in our own locality with my own eyes every single day.
Arizona's meteor crater is the best preserved impact crater in the world. It was also the first one proved to be an impact crater. It is almost a mile across and 570 feet deep. Scientists estimate that the impactor was a 150-foot-wide nickel-iron meteor moving at 26,000 mph.
The facilities for visitors are modern and attractive. Entrance fee in 2021 was $20 for adults, $11 for children. You save a little by ordering online at meteorcrater.com.
My composite shot from the Perseid meteor shower.
I use my both camera for catch meteors. 😃
EXIF:
Nikon D7200 & Sigma 17-50mm
Nikon D3400 & Nikkor 18-55mm
Omegon Minitrack LX2 (for the D7200)
Perseid hunt:
D3400:
ISO 3200
F/3.5
20s
18mm
D7200:
ISO 1600
F/4
80s
17mm
Foreground:
2 shot pano with the D7200
ISO 1000
F/4
80s
17mm
Amtrak 98, the northbound Silver Meteor, passes through Newark Delaware on its way north. Its trip started in Miami under diesel power about 24 hours prior. A single ACS-64 handles the final leg of the journey up the Northeast Corridor.
Despite the early cloud and bright moon, I still had a good show here last night, with some really bright meteors. This one was at around 2.40 a.m. and was typical, although most seemed to miss the camera's sensor.... I was lucky that the previous day we had the tree surgeon down to prune the large oak at the back of our garden, or I'd not have got this shot......Colours a bit clearer viewed large...
Twelve meteors were imaged between 12:27 and 2:52 a.m. north of New Underwood, South Dakota. Three appear to be sporadic, not emanating from the radiant point near the Double Cluster. About 360 images taken; tracked with iOptron Star Guider Pro. 24mm; f/3.2; ISO 3200; 20 sec. Stitched in MS Ice.
Lots of meteors this year...this is the best shot I was able to get out of about 300 25 and 30-second time exposures. This meteor passed just above the Big Dipper.
Note...enlarging the photo removes the squiggles from the tail of the meteor.
PS...one of the Big Dipper's stars is a double. Can you find it?
One of the Quadrantid meteors from around 5.00 am this morning. On the left of the image are the brighter stars of the 'handle' of The Plough.
Perseid Meteor Showers 2020
Here is another shot I got from the same night when I was chasing meteor shower on Friday. Again this beach was filled with party-goers too, so tried to stay away from the mass.
A video showing the movement of milkyway is here:
Well, I was very lucky in Crowborough in that it stayed clear all night. Fabulous for watching the meteors from a sun lounger in the garden. This is one of the images I've processed and shows two meteors, passing in front of the milky way, in the south west sky, around 2.00 am this morning. I hope some of my other meteor watchers got clear skies too. Off now to continue the decorating at my daughter's house. Catch up soon.
PS This one should enlarge quite well for a better view.
Managed to capture a Perseid meteor from Pilling in Lancashire. The conditions were not favorable for seeing with the big moon & hazy sky, but I was glad to at least capture one on camera.
This stack represents nearly 100 meteors captured over the course of 2.5 hours last night. The camera rode piggyback on the scope for tracking. ISO 16000, f/2.8, 24mm, 6 second exposures. The Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies, Pleides and double cluster make appearances as well.
Testing a lens for astrophotography.
This image show several meteors and one aircraft with navigation lights.
The exposure time is slightly too long for this focal length for pin sharp star images.
Wide open, this lens produces passable results but would be much better stopped down a little.
. . . About 40 miles to the east of Flagstaff, AZ is one of the wonders of the natural world! It is located south of the old US Highway 66 (and modern US Highway 40) a few miles, and I am sure a lot of people just never know it is even there.
This natural event happened about 50,000 years ago when a meteor smashed into the dessert and sent debris flying for miles! NASA built a few small buildings at the center of the photo to train for the lunar landings in the 60s, but it really hard to spot them from the rim! The Visitor's Center is excellent and just off to the right edge of the crater.
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Frisco railroad locomotive #4500 with METEOR passenger train located at Route 66 Historical Village in Tulsa, OK.
I managed to capture a few Lyrid meteors last evening, April 21, 2020. Here is a composite image showing two meteors. The Big Dipper asterism and the star Vega (in the constellation Lyra) have been highlighted in this view to help orient you. The focal point of the Lyrid Meteor Shower is in the direction of Vega, you can see how these meteors point in that general direction.
Tech Specs: Canon 6D, Lensbaby Fisheye Lens, tripod mounted, unguided, controlled with BackYardEOS software platform for automated 30-second images all night. Date: April 21, 2020 Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
Caught the Perseid Meteors in action on a starry night, in Minturn, Colorado.
For more photos on the series, you can visit my website at www.bhattacherjee.com/Night-Sky/
For the 2nd time this year, I managed by chance to record a meteor next to an astronomical object that I was focused on. Here's the other example: www.flickr.com/photos/cloud_spirit/52488865286
In this case, Comet c/2022 E3 ZTF is the faint pale green glow left of this faint but colorful micro meteor. Nikon d7100, Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 @ f/3.5, 1x30s, iso 3200, raw, chopped. The comet was about 8th magnitude. The meteor was probably 3rd magnitude.
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In the northern Arizona Desert is the best preserved impact crater on earth. Meteor Crater is 50,000 years old and is 2.5 miles in circumference. This is a 6 photo panorama with a few foreground signs removed in Photoshop.
A very brilliant meteor falling from the sky and pointing to the cross at the top of Mt. Pizzoc (NE Italy).
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6 meteors composited from images, which were taken during a period of one hour and 22 minutes near Pitt Lake, Pitt Meadows, BC, Canada.
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Geminids Meteor Fireball taken from Bartlesville Oklahoma December 13, 2017. Also visible is the silhouette of the weather vane on my pool house.
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