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Night Sky 13 & 14 December (Geminids meteor shower peak), KiwiAstro

Night Sky 13 & 14 December (Geminids meteor shower peak)

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Night Sky 13 & 14 December (Geminids meteor shower peak), KiwiAstro

Night Sky 13 & 14 December (Geminids meteor shower peak)

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On the evenings of 13 and 14 December, my objective was to capture meteors during the peak season of the Geminids meteor shower.  Over the 6 hours+ during 2 nights, there were hundreds of satellites and a few meteors. 

After going through each sub and identifying Meteors, I used Photoshop with layers to create a composite - not always clean on the meteor trails on the composite (vs the individual layer which contains one or two meteors).    For some reason, on individual layers there is less noise around the meteor than on the composite which shows streaks/dots in the lines - will further study on this to see how to improve my processing.

These are what looked like meteors (vs the subs containing satellites which were ignored from the processing).

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Night Sky 13 & 14 December (Geminids meteor shower peak), KiwiAstro