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Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA
11:59 pm
Nikon D3200 DLSR, Rokinon 14 mm f2.8 wide-angle lens, Star Adventurer 2i tracker.
Lighthouse/foreground was shot near sunset, ISO 400, f/4.5, 1/2-sec exposure.
Comets were shot continuously from 10 pm to 2 am, ISO 1600, f/2.8, 15-sec exposures (593 shots total) while tracking. Camera was originally framed on the lighthouse and radiant
Processed using Affinity Photo for Mac. Star tracker made it easy to layers on all the meteor shots properly oriented. The final Affinity Photo file with 31 layers was 1.3 Gb in size.
28 meteors captured over the Edgartown lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard on the evening of the Geminid Meteor Shower peak, Dec 13, 2023.
