The Geminids Meteor shower 2014


Date & Time: Dec 14 2014, from 19:16 to 23:32 JST(+0900)
Lighten-mode composite of 32 shots with 13sec. exposed
Optical: SIGMA 15mm EX Fish-eye, Aperture: F2.8
Autu-guided with EYEBELL CD-1 portable Equatorial
Digital: Canon EOS 550D (Remodeled)
Location: Hiraiso, Hitachi-naka city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...JPEG-FINE(2592×1728)
Sensitivity...ISO3200


This image has composed about 30 Geminids meteor shots taken on Dec 14, 2014, the maximum activity day of the Geminids meteor shower. I could appreciate the meteors with hourly rate of about 40 meteors per hour, including several bright ones over 1st magnitude.
  This image has displayed bu turning the zenith direction upward.



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