Geminid Meteor

Dec.10 2009

Here’s a Geminid meteor picture I took right before the clouds rolled in December 9th, 2009. I haven’t plotted it in a star map yet, but I’m pretty sure the radiant is Gemini. After looking at the weather reports I’m afraid we will miss the peak of the shower here in Maryland due to rain and clouds so I was happy to have a break in the weather tonight and even happier to get lucky and catch another meteor.

Here’s a zoomed crop of the meteor. This was a 2 minute exposure at ISO 800 using a Canon 40D camera.

Geminid Sporadic Meteor - December 9th, 2009

Here’s the full picture. This was one of the last frames before the clouds came and blocked out the stars.

Geminid Sporadic Meteor - December 10th, 2009

The star in the center of the picture is Capella. The Pleiades is in the lower right.

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1 Comment for this entry

Erika
December 11th, 2009 on 12:43 am
Great Pictures…we would like to use them!
We are the developers of Star Walk an astronomy guide application for iPhone and we have launched a new version where we feature ”astronomy pictures of the day” therefore we need always more people who can send us regularly some pictures in order for us to publish them in the application.

The picture will be shown with its coordinates and it will appear with ”courtesy of….” and a link to your website or blog. We could guarantee a definite increase in popularity for it as the application is kind of well-known.

Please let us know if this would be something of interest for you.
Regards,
Erika