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Bright Green Geminid Meteor Over Topaz Lake

The Geminids are the year’s most active meteor shower, but they’re not known for producing a lot of fireball meteors. However, if you’re out shooting them, you might still catch some! As the saying goes, “you must be present to win!”  The trajectory of this one doesn’t point to the radiant point of the Geminids, so it’s probably from the Chi Orionids, with a radiant point just above Orion the hunter, which is known to produce fireball meteors.

The best viewing summary I’ve found for the 2017 Geminid meteor shower is by Robert Lunsford, on the American Meteor Society Web site:
https://www.amsmeteors.org/2017/12/viewing-the-geminid-meteor-shower-in-2017/

Here are a few of my shots of the Geminids from recent years:

2016:
The moon was full for the 2016 Geminids, and the skies were cloudy as well:

2015:

2014:

2012:

2011:

2010:

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Jeff Sullivan leads landscape photography workshops in national parks and public lands throughout California and the American West.

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