Meteors
Taken by Paolo Palma on December 14, 2019 @
Naples
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Camera Used: samsung SM-A510F
Exposure Time: 1/338
Aperture: f/1.9
ISO: 40
Date Taken: 2019:12:15 00:47:20
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Details:
Tonight the call from a friend
held me for about 40 minutes (from 6:00 to 6:40 UT) under the clear and starry sky, giving me unexpectedly the observation of 6 shooting stars!
But it was only the beginning!
Knowing the maximum of the Geminid meteors shower it was easy to see how the trajectory of all of them coincited with a single direction located right in the constellation of Gemini,
at that hour still low on the horizon.
Noticing then that they kept falling I later decided to make a note of it on a map so as to verify its belonging more precisely!
In short, in just over an hour, from 9:25 to 10:40 UT,
the total number of meteors observed it has even grown fivefold, if we consider those seen also only from the corner of the eye and therefore not shown on the map.
Two fell behind each other - at 10:53 pm - and two at the same time - at 11:22 pm!
Only at the end I inserted in the map the point where the radiant should be! And indeed it seems that the result be quite satisfying: they were all Geminid meteors!
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