The Orionid meteor bathe peaked on the nights of Oct. 21-23, delighting fortunate stargazers with a beautiful pure fireworks show as particles from Halley’s Comet collided with Earth’s environment to create fiery taking pictures stars within the night time sky.
Photographer Osama Fathi was amongst these fortunate skywatchers, and captured a spectacular view of Orionid meteors streaking by the sky over Lake Qarun in Egypt on Oct. 19, because the bathe ramped up exercise forward of its 3-day peak.
“This composite image combines a few meteor frames captured over three hours from Qatrani, near the northern edge of the lake,” Fathi told Space.com in an e mail. “Out of more than 200 photos taken during the session, only a handful of bright meteors aligned gracefully near the constellation Orion — visible at the center right of the frame.”
Fathi’s composite skyscape was created by combining a three-minute publicity of the night time sky with a number of 10-second photographs of meteors captured utilizing a Nikon Z6 digicam fitted with a 14-24 mm Nikkor lens.
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If clouds conspired to spoil your view through the Oct. 21-23 peak, there isn’t any want to fret, as there will be loads extra taking pictures stars to see within the coming days, based on Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society. “Rates will fall very slowly after these dates so the mornings of October 24-26 will still provide hourly rates in excess of 10 per hour when viewing from rural dark skies,” Lunsford advised Space.com in an e mail. “Note by then the radiant will have moved eastward into western Gemini so folks should not be surprised to see these meteors shooting from that constellation instead of Orion”.
Photographers excited about capturing their very own taking pictures stars ought to take a look at our information to imaging meteor showers, together with our roundups of the high cameras and lenses for astrophotography.
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