dawson Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Heavily light polluted back garden trail, about 30 minutes at 4.30am today; Jupiter bright streak near the centre, Castor and Pollux above. Four meteors streaking away from the radiant. 240 subs, 10 seconds each, ISO 800, f/4, 19mm focal length, Canon 6d. No processing, just stacking. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peepshow Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 I'm intrigued by the line of horizontal dots near the bottom. Do you know what may have caused them? That's a very wide angle lens you have there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 I'm guessing it's the strobes on a plane. There is a lot of air traffic in that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Yup - Leigh's nailed it I reckon - gotta be an aircraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 I think it was a faulty geminid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peepshow Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 If it's strobing why is the trail continuous on the right hand side and not dotted ? Also 3 dots are missing along the line of dots. It's the phantom 'Nottingham dotter 'at work . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 I've often noticed that the flashing lights on aircraft flash for 7 or 8, then miss a flash. The continuous bit of light may well have been before the aircraft turned so the headlights were pointing towards the camera. It is a wide lens, but the stock canon lens is 18--55mm; this wasn't that lens and it was on a near full frame camera so may look wider. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 It's probably down to the angle of approach of the aircraft, and this widens as it passes the camera. I remember driving down the M25 one night, and looking west, there were countless aircraft all in a descending line from miles away. These were all on the glide path into Heathrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Well i'm glad you all like my attempt at capturing the geminids Jd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Haha, nice effort but I think it needs a bit of tweaking in Photoshop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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