Geminids from Arizona
Taken by Alan Dyer on December 13, 2017 @
near Portal, Arizona
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Exposure Time: 30/1
Aperture: f/2.5
ISO: 6400
Date Taken: 2017:12:14 13:23:35
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It was a fantastic night of meteor watching under perfect skies in southeastern Arizona near Portal and the Arizona Sky Village. Meteors were raining down by the minute, wth often a flurry of meteors seconds apart. These are composites, stacking multiple meteors onto one frame, though at times the real view did take in several meteors flying in tandem. The vertical view looking southeast takes in the winter Milky Way and 20 meteors, including one very bright one. These were shot over nearly 2 hours. In the view looking west, the trio of meteors over the Chiricahua Mountains is a stack of just two images taken seconds apart. All were 30-second exposures. I'd rank the 2017 Geminids up with the 1992 and 2016 Perseids for number. With the radiant at the zenith from this latitude, it seemed that meteors were raining down all around, impossible to take it all in and certainly not photograph without a fish-eye lens, which would still miss the fainter meteors. It was a great show!
Photographer's website:
http://www.amazingsky.com
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