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RE: 2017 Geminid Meteor Shower - Original pictures from the desert pt 2 (saved the best for last)
This is beautiful!
As an astrophysicist (yep, did more in theory than chasing stars in the field - even tho I did some of that) never seen these light filaments in the sky, any explanation?
Thanks for sharing this beautiful photos and nice gif! Keep it coming :)
Thanks! And the filaments are just meteors, not sure if you've ever stayed up late at night during a meteor storm, but these happen randomly all year, but some nights there are THOUSANDS of them :) https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/meteors/indepth
Well yes, it's my profession, had one photo of it too. :D
But the yellowish light thing, that cant be swarm of meteors, clouds maybe? O
OHH sorry, I gotcha now, I was a little confused why someone of your education wouldn't know about meteors, but you never know ;) (I was thinking maybe you were all into the math of it or something and hadn't seen one:P ). Yeah those were odd whisps of clouds being lit up by orange light pollution from the city. You can see them dissipate and move away in the bottom gif.
But they do look really cool, kinda like a crown, or maybe nebula formation or something. I like that they add another element to the photos.
yeah, viewing it few times in gif I realized they are clouds. But they have formation like northern lights with a little less color effect. :)
Once again great photos and thanks for sharing them.
Cheers