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Thomas Dame
Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA

12/13/2023
11:59 pm

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Equipment Details:

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

Post-processing Details:

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.

Image Details:

28 meteors captured over the Edgartown lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard on the evening of the Geminid Meteor Shower peak, Dec 13, 2023.

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David Callejas, Marketing Director, helps bring EarthSky's content to the world via online ads and other products. He creates strategies that help people around the world find us and appreciate the work we do. He helps manage the EarthSky Store and bring to you the new products that you love. He's the chief liaison between EarthSky.org and the world of commerce. All that, plus he helps post content and populate our pages on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. Go David!