Geminids Meteor Shower (Richard Bratt)

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Geminids Meteor Shower

Well, this is the best shot from last night. Given that I sat out on icy rocks by the ocean in 13˚ weather for four hours to get this I'm motivated to present it even if the meteor had the poor judgement to enter near the top of the frame. All images were shot with a Sony a7Riii with a Batis 2/25 wide open at 13s, ISO 1600 on a fixed tripod. This is a composite of 114 frames aligned and stacked for the star field and 114 frames stacked for the foreground with the meteor layered on top. I know I could have repositioned it, and perhaps I will at some point, but this is as it appeared. I have now learned that registering and integrating 114 40+Mpix images on a 16GB Mac Book Pro is just barely in the doable and ate a day. I think I better use fewer frames in the future Ok, what the heck, I updated it to have the best two meteor strikes.

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