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These two meteors in Orion were filmed by
Tony Phillips in Aspendell, CA at approximately 1110 UT
on December 13, 1998, the night before the maximum of the
1998 Geminid meteor shower. He used an Astrovid 2000 CCD
video camera with a 12 mm f1.2 lens, and a shutter speed of 1/60 sec.
The 30 frame sequence spans 2 seconds of actual time.
The dimmer of the two shooting stars, which travels straight down from the top of the image, is a Geminid. It is probably a sporadic meteor or a Coma Berenicid, but it could also be a late-arriving Leonid. |