Geminids (Stacked)
Taken by Jan Curtis on December 14, 2018 @
Vail, Arizona
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With a camera on a tripod facing east, I was able to record several meteors between 4:03AM and 5:47AM on Dec 14. This stacked image contains 25 individual frames; some with multiple meteors and 2 sporadic ones. Nikon d7100, Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 @ f/2.8, iso 2200 with exposure of 40s. Star trails would have been avoid with exposures limited to 13 seconds per frame.
While this meteor shower was probably the best since the 2002 Leonid Meteor Storm by count, most meteors were notably faint.
In this composite, only a few were visible naked eye. The brightest one (top center) was probably zero magnitude and left a smoke train for over 200 seconds on seceding images.
An over exposed Venus dominates at right. Bortle sky darkness was ~3.5.
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