I went outside around 1 AM (EST, GMT -5) December 14th for the Geminid
meteor shower, but did not have much luck. I saw one meteor just as I
was setting up my tripod, but then nothing else. After taking a few
pictures that caught nothing, I turned the camera about 180 degrees away
from the meteor path, where the Orion constellation was floating just
above the tree line.
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=23676
<http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=23676>
The night sky came out much better than it did the last time I tried
something like this, in August 2016 for the Perseid meteor shower.
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20573
<http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20573>
The exposures were nearly the same, 20 sec @ 2.8, iso 200 vs 250 this
time. One difference was the camera (E-M5 I vs E-M1 II with noise
reduction this time) but I think that bigger difference was simply
better atmospherics - this time the sky was totally cloudless, and it
was one day before the new moon. Moose had done one of his wonderful
roll-the-mouse-to-see-different-postprocessing-options web pages on the
old picture, but I lost the link.
You can see that Betelgeuse, the left "shoulder" star, is reddish.
----- Larry Woods
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