Quadrantid Meteor Composite
Taken by Alan Dyer on January 3, 2016 @
Gleichen, Alberta
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D750
Exposure Time: 10/1
Aperture: f/2.0
ISO: 3200
Date Taken: 2016:01:04 14:06:05
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Details:
A composite of the Quadrantid meteor shower, on January 3, 2016, in a sequence of images shot over 2 hours from 9 to 11 pm MST from southern Alberta. This is a stack of 14 images, the best out of 600 shot that recorded meteors. The ground and sky comes from one image with the best Quad of the night, and the other images were masked and layered into that image, with no attempt to align their paths with the moving radiant point. However, over the 2 hours, the radiant point low in the north would not have moved too much, as it rose higher into the northern sky.
Most of the meteors here are Quads, but the very bright bolide at left, while it looks like it is coming from the radiant, it is actually streaking toward the radiant, and is not a Quadrantid. But oh so close! I left it in the composite for the sake of the nice composition!
Light clouds moving in added the natural star glows around the Big Dipper stars.
All frames were 10 seconds at f/2 with the 24mm lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200.
Photographer's website:
http://www.amazingsky.net
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