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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.
I'm always conscious of local culture when we're out on a trip. A special interest in local beer culture makes a trip all the more interesting. In the background of this photo, you can see the buildings of the Brasserie Meteor. This independant brewery is home to Meteor (pils and lager) and Wendelinus (blonde and roussa), and also creates occasional brewings.
We saw many trains, including a Eurocity: SNCF 26167 with EC 96 "Iris" from Basel to Brussels.
SNCF 26167, Hochfelden 29.1.2017
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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?
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:
6 meteors composited from images, which were taken during a period of one hour and 22 minutes near Pitt Lake, Pitt Meadows, BC, Canada.
Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 @ f/2.8.
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Notts+Derby 11, ADL Enviro E400 bodied ADL E40D LK58 KGJ poses at Meteor Centre, Derby with fellow fleet-mates 12, 13 and 14 for an organised photo shoot to symbolise a new era for the company. 02/05/2021.
Meteor Crater was formed 50000 years ago, when a huge Meteorite 50 meters in diameter and weighing 300000 tons crashed at a speed between 10 and 20 km / s.
The impact generated as much energy as 150 Atomic bombs.
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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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.
One very bright meteor from the Perseid Meteor shower
This photo didn't turn out as well as I'd like but at least I got part of a nice meteor that shows its colors.
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
After visiting Ancient Bristlecone Forest in the afternoon, I was a bit frustrated that I did not have enough time to do night photography there. What a great place it would have been!
But I had to decide between Bristlecone and the Alabama Hills and went for the more conveniently located Mobius Arch in the Alabamas. After a "scouting mission" late in the afternoon, I arrived at the parking shortly before sunset. There were two other cars parked there. While I unloaded my equipment, I was approached by the guy parked next to me and asked if I would do astrophotography at "the arch". As I told him yes, he seemed pretty unhappy and said that he hoped we wouldn't disturb each other and that it would not get too crowded. I just smiled and said I was sure we would find a way to get our desired shots and started the short walk to the arch. After a few steps a British couple asked me for directions and I invited them to join me for the short hike.
While walking, we started discussing photography and the guy told me he wanted to try Milky Way photography for a while. I told him this was one of the best places to start this great hobby and that his camera was more than adequate (actually better than mine). After further discussing the topic, while setting up my equipment and after showing him some of my RAWs I took at Mono Lake, he was finally hooked. He told me he would go for a short dinner and be back to see a pro at work and maybe learn a few tricks.
This really made me lough out loud. I told him that he was welcome to join me but that I was no pro by far, that I started Milky Way photography only a few month ago and that all I know about the topic comes from Royce Bairs e-Book "Milky Way Nightscapes": intothenightphoto.blogspot.ch/
After the couple left for dinner I continued to setup my equipment and lights and did some test shots.
This is one of the first captures I took, shortly after moonset, while I was still alone at the arch. The flash on the left is a meteor that I chanced to capture in the same frame. Obviously a sign of good luck for the rest of the evening.
Canon 7D mk ll on a fixed tripod
Single exposure 25 sec @ ISO3200
Samyang 10mm f/2.8 ED
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.
20 sec @ f/2.8 ISO 6400
Canon 5D markII
Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L usm
Noiseware pro edition
Lucky meteor captured during this mini time lapse:
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.
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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This was my first shot that night... There were many better long exposure photos of the mountains and the stars... but after more than an hour of begging, I still could not get another meteor to visit my frame.
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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The Arizona Meteor Crater (Barringer Meteorite Crater) formed some 50,000 years ago when an asteroid plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere and crashed into what would become central Arizona. Because of the crater’s young age and the dry climate, Meteor Crater is the best preserved impact crater on Earth. The asteroid was small in astronomical terms, about 150 feet (45 meters) across. Traveling at around 8 miles per second (12.8 km/sec), the force of the asteroid's impact on the ground was tremendous.
Meteor Crater is 3900 feet (1200 meters) in diameter. There has been some erosion since the formation of the crater. It has lost around 20 feet (6 meters) of its elevation on the rim, and the bottom has filled with about 200-250 feet (60-75 meters) of rubble and sand. For a very long time immediately after the impact, the crater was a lake. There are about 90 feet (27 meters) of lake sediment and deposits on the floor of the crater today.
Kodak Tri-X Pan 320, 4" x 5", 320 iso, Normal development in PMK developer, 9:35 minutes, 20C [68F]. Taken January 2021, Ebony SV45TE. Fujinon-W 125mm.
Abandoned Meteor, overtaken by Aspens, Barrhead County, Alberta.
Le cratère s'est formé il y a environ 50 000 ans, au Pléistocène, alors que le climat du plateau du Colorado était plus frais et plus humide qu'aujourd'hui. À cette époque, la région était recouverte par une végétation de savane ouverte et peuplée de mammouths laineux, de paresseux terrestres géants et de camélidés. En revanche, les êtres humains ne peuplaient probablement pas encore la région.
L'objet qui est à l'origine de la formation du cratère était une météorite ferreuse riche en fer et en nickel d'un diamètre d'environ 50 mètres. Sa vitesse au moment de sa collision avec la Terre était de plusieurs kilomètres par seconde.
À l'origine, les modélisations donnaient une vitesse de 20 km/s, mais les études les plus récentes avancent une vitesse plus faible, de 12,8 km/s. On estime que la météorite a perdu la moitié de sa masse initiale, qui était de l'ordre de 300 000 tonnes, au cours de sa traversée de l'atmosphère terrestre. Une partie de la roche constituant la météorite s'est en effet vaporisée au cours de cette traversée.
La météorite est entrée en collision avec le sol suivant un angle de 80 degrés.
La collision a dégagé une énergie considérable équivalente à 2,5 mégatonnes de TNT ou encore à celle d'une explosion thermonucléaire environ 150 fois plus puissante que celle de la bombe d'Hiroshima. L'explosion éjecta du sol 175 millions de tonnes de roche.
Des blocs de roche calcaire pesant plus de 30 tonnes ont été projetés au-delà du cratère et des débris rocheux formés au moment de l'impact ont été retrouvés sur une étendue de 260 km².
La chaleur et le souffle engendrés par la collision ont probablement détruit instantanément toute forme de vie dans un rayon de 4 kilomètres. Dans un rayon de 10 km, la chaleur dégagée par la boule de feu a provoqué de sévères brûlures sur tous les organismes vivants. Dans un rayon de 14 à 22 km, une onde de choc se déplaçant à la vitesse de 2 000 km/h a tout balayé sur son passage.
Cependant l'impact ne projeta pas une quantité de poussière suffisante dans l'atmosphère pour pouvoir modifier notablement le climat de la Terre. La zone de la collision fut entièrement recolonisée par la faune et la flore en l'espace d'un siècle.
La météorite fut en grande partie vaporisée au moment de la collision. Des fragments de fer et nickel de la taille d'un grain de gravier à celle de gros blocs pesant jusqu'à 650 kilogrammes, ont été récoltés dans la zone de débris entourant le cratère. Des gouttelettes de fer et de nickel de la taille d'un grain de sable sont retombées dans et autour du cratère après la condensation de la vapeur métallique.
The crater was created about 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, when the local climate on the Colorado Plateau was much cooler and damper. The area was an open grassland dotted with woodlands inhabited by woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths. The crater was over 10,000 years old when the first humans saw it, at the earliest, 40,000 years ago.
Since the crater's formation, the rim is thought to have lost 15–20 meters of height at the rim crest due to natural erosion. Similarly, the basin of the crater is thought to have approximately 30 meters of additional postimpact sedimentation from lake sediments and of alluvium. These erosion processes are the reason we see very few remaining craters on Earth, since many have been erased by this geological process. The relatively young age of Meteor Crater, paired with the Arizona climate, have allowed this crater to remain as we see it today. The lack of erosion that preserved the crater's shape helped lead to this crater being the first crater recognized as an official impact crater from a natural celestial body.
The object that excavated the crater was a nickel-iron meteorite about 50 meters (160 feet) across. The speed of the impact has been a subject of some debate. Modeling initially suggested that the meteorite struck at up to 20 kilometers per second (45,000 mph) but more recent research suggests the impact was substantially slower, at 12.8 kilometers per second (28,600 mph). It is believed that about half of the impactor's bulk was vaporized during its descent. Impact energy has been estimated at about 10 megatons. The meteorite was mostly vaporized upon impact, leaving little in the crater.