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Dec 14, 2015 09:46 |  #1

I was blown away by how many I saw flying by last night...and equally surprised that after three hours...I only managed to capture one shot. Will try again tonight. Well worth the time out...even if you don't snag a pic.

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Dec 14, 2015 13:31 |  #2

Nice picture. I am glad somebody is able to see it. It has been cloudy here for the last week, and the forecast for this week doesn't look much better.

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Dec 14, 2015 22:27 |  #3

Nice capture, same here raining!!




  
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Dec 14, 2015 22:57 |  #4

Actually having a better night this evening. Yeah

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Dec 15, 2015 06:52 |  #5

Most of these are pretty faint but I have counted over 30 of them in this photo. this is a 15 second exposure taken with a 24 to 70mm lens set at 35mm and F4. The time as 12:58 on 14 Dec 2015 from Alvin Texas

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Dec 17, 2015 00:29 |  #6

CatchingUp wrote in post #17818443 (external link)
I was blown away by how many I saw flying by last night...and equally surprised that after three hours...I only managed to capture one shot. Will try again tonight. Well worth the time out...even if you don't snag a pic.

hahaha, I hear you on that one !!

Monday morn 14th spent two x 1 hr sessions, midnite to 1am and 3 am to 4 am, under the stars, battling high thin to thick cloud
from home within Sydney city and horrid light pollution. I saw 5 Geminids in each of those two 1 hr slots

Tues morning I went to one of my dark sites north of the city for a 2.5 hour session from 1am to 3.30am
and again battling lots of passing cloud :-(
first hr 12 Geminids and 7 sporadic
second hour 17 Geminids and 5 sporadic
last 30 mins 7 Geminids

and in all that only one captured on camera ......
streaking out of Gemini below Orion and towards Taurus

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Dec 22, 2015 12:26 |  #7

johndgodwin wrote in post #17819607 (external link)
Most of these are pretty faint but I have counted over 30 of them in this photo. this is a 15 second exposure taken with a 24 to 70mm lens set at 35mm and F4. The time as 12:58 on 14 Dec 2015 from Alvin Texas

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Hi John,
welcome to the forums :-)

A good attempt, but unfortunately no meteors in this image ... lots of nice star trails tho, when the camera got bumped or moved
during the exposure ..... a lesson to be learned there ;-)a
You have all the 2016 meteor showers to look forward to and get some practice in and we look forward to seeing how you get on :)

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Jan 03, 2016 22:18 |  #8

Those are awesome shots, to bad it was cloudy here to try

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