[meteorite-list] Vesta, Ceres, Jupiter, AND a meteor
Jodie Reynolds
spacerocks at spaceballoon.org
Sat Dec 29 23:33:28 EST 2012
I was out just before moon-rise trying to see if I could catch Vesta,
Ceres, and Jupiter together.
Just after I opened the shutter for a 6" exposure, I saw a meteoroid
streak across the sky apparent heading towards Ain. Very short and dim, I
hoped it'd be enough to expose at 1000ISO.
It did! Vesta, Ceres, Jupiter, and a meteor trail in the same frame!
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good!
Here it is with the red channel processed up a little bit to expose
it. Sorry about the sky noise, I was shooting through a sucker-hole
in the clouds and the moon was already brightening the sky. No other
processing other than resize to 1280x1024.
http://www.spaceballoon.org/vesta-ceres-jupiter-meteor.jpg
(Canon 50D,17-40L @ 40mm,6",f/4, ISO1000, 18:37:04 - 18:37:10 PST
[02:37 UTC])
P.S. Pardon the annotations, I needed them for registration to find
the darned minor planets. ;)
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