METEOR CROSSES COMET WIRTANEN
Taken by OLIVIER STAIGER on December 18, 2018 @
Vétroz, Switzerland
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Camera Used: SONY ILCE-7S
Exposure Time: 2/1
Aperture: f/1.0
ISO: 16000
Date Taken: 2018:12:18 02:24:24
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EXTREME LUCKY CATCH !
METEOR CROSSES COMET WIRTANEN
Early morning of 18th december the sky was clearing at my home location ( Vétroz, Switzerland) and was preparing to do a live streaming webcast of comet Wirtanen setting behind a mountain to my west named Haut-de-Cry, right out of my bedroom window !
While I was waiting for a thin layer of clouds to dissipate I took just a few still images, and on one of them a meteor flew right in front of comet Wirtanen !
Used a Sony a7s with Mitakon 35mm f/095 II lens at f/0.95, ISO 16.000 , just 2 seconds exposure and got extremely lucky to catch the faint meteor fly right in front of 46P during that short shutter speed. Moments later I shot another image with same settings except for a shorter shutter speed, just 1 second long.
This was at 02:24:24 UT .
A bit later I started the live webcast ( using mostly another lens, Canon EF 200/2.8 L but also briefly the Mitakon 35/0.95 ) , and higher ISO given the shorter shutter speed in video ) , that webcast can still be seen here:
https://www.facebook.com/Klipsi/videos/10218932362808563/
what meteor was it ? given the direction it was flying it may have been an Ursid.
Photographer's website:
http://www.aurorafiddler.com
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