A lone random meteor streaks across the winter Milky Way, and through Auriga and Taurus toward Orion, on December 12, 2017. While this was the night before the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower, this was not a Geminid – it was going the wrong way! This is a stack of 7 exposures, each 1 minute at f/2 with the Canon 24mm lens and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 6400 on the Star Adventurer Mini tracker. One exposure contained the meteor streak; the others contained the fading and dispersing meteor “smoke” train. Taken from the Quailway Cottage near Portal, Arizona.
A single bright meteor from the Geminid meteor shower of December 2017, dropping toward the horizon in Ursa Major. Gemini itself and the radiant of the shower is at top centre. Leo is just rising at bottom centre. Procyon is at upper right. I shot this from the Quailway Cottage in southeastern Arizona, on December 12, 2017. It is one frame from a 700-frame sequence for stacking and time-lapses. The ground is a mean stack of 8 frames to smooth noise. Exposures were 30 seconds at ISO 6400 with the Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.5 and Canon 6D MkII.
The Pleiades appearing from behind the Hoodoos in silhouette, with Auriga at left. A meteor appears at right as a bonus. Illumination is from the waxing gibbous Moon off frame at upper right. This is on Highway 10 near Drumheller, Alberta. A stack of 8 exposures for the ground to smooth noise and a single exposure for the sky, all 10 seconds at f/2.8 with the 24mm lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 800.
