Geminids 2025 above the german/austrian alps 🌌

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Due to poor weather across almost all of Germany, I had to drive all the way to the german/austrian border in order to catch a clear night. Since I had never photographed a meteor shower before, the effort was absolutely worth it — especially when I saw the first Geminids streaking across the sky above me. Such a wonderful sight that everyone should experience at least once. Even though my limited time during the night did not allow me to capture the largest meteors, I am very happy with the final result. Also captured some red & green airglow, always nice to have. The images were taken between 10:00 PM and 12:00 AM.

HaRGB | Mosaic | Tracked | Stacked | Composite

Exif: Panorama: Sony A7III with Sigma 28-45 f1.8 at 35mm Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i

Meteors: Sony A7III with Sony G 20mm

Panorama ISO 1000 | f1.8 | 5x45s per Panel 3x2 Panel Panorama

Meteors: ISO 5000 | f1.8 | 12s per image captured around 20 in 250 images

Foreground: ISO 2500 | f1.8 | 60s per Panel 3x1 Panel Panorama

Halpha (45mm): ISO 2500 | f2 | 10x90s

Location: Barmsee, Germany

8 points illmasternoodles

Wow! You absolutely nailed it!

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1 points Senior_Library1001

thank you, aprreciate it!🙏🏻

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2 points illmasternoodles

Is this a stacked image or single exposure? I’m working on stacking my geminids images but it’s not proving to be easy

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1 points Senior_Library1001

the panorama panels are stacke. The Meteors are not, those are single exposures registered to the panorama image

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2 points klanis

Great picture! I was hoping to catch them too, wrote a note in my calendar a couple months ago. Even had a clear sky the night before, some people got a little aurora. Aaaaand on the peak night we got totally overcast sky and a snowfall. Well, the snow was nice, but even that is gone today because of the weather getting warmer again.

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1 points Senior_Library1001

Thanks man! I feel you. Astro in Germany weatherwise is always a rollercoaster. The forecast for that night was changing every 2 hours 😄 Even on the drive to the spot I thought about driving back because suddenly fog turned up around me 😅

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2 points Ok-Fortune8939

Amazing capture!

Since the Halpha was taken at a long focal length than the panorama do you scale it to fit the final image?

I’ve been thinking of getting a Halpha filter, this makes me want one even more.

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2 points Senior_Library1001

The halpha image is registered exactly with a software called registar. Works amazing!

You should go for it, It's pretty fun. Especially for winter milky way images!

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2 points mmberg

Love it!

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1 points Senior_Library1001

appreciate it 😇

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1 points ThisComfortable4838

Lovely. Saying hello from Switzerland… where we have had Hochnebel for what seems like an eternity now.

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1 points Senior_Library1001

Thank you! Germany is not much better. I was lucky to catch a clear night down there, because the weather in rest of germany was awful😄

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2 points ThisComfortable4838

I’ve gotten out to the alps above the Nebel for paragliding yesterday and today. Seeing the sun is a good thing.

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1 points No_Engineer_3030

Very beautiful.👍

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2 points Senior_Library1001

thanks!!🙏🏻

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1 points exclaim_bot

thanks!!🙏🏻

You're welcome!

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1 points Fitmature1

Love this! Thanks for sharing!

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1 points Senior_Library1001

thank you so much🙏🏻

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1 points Caspercakes_

Stunning ✨

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1 points Senior_Library1001

thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻

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1 points Top-Assist-8877

Beautiful. Those are like wallpapers

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