Stargazing & Using My Insta360 For The First Time Framing The Geminid Meteor Shower
Last week I stumbled upon an article about this month's Geminid Meteor Shower.
If you know me at all, you know I'm legit from Pluto and miss the shit out of free space travel haha. So any time I can get in a Planetarium or see some awesome stuff in the sky - I try and go.
Anyhow, according to the Internet, ''The Geminids are a prolific meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid with a "rock comet" orbit. This would make the Geminids, together with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet.''
And the best display comes on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th December with no Moon in the sky to disturb the observations.
Sadly England is a very cloudy country, with a typical forecast for the winter season called ''overcast'' - for those fortunate to not know what this is - it's when the blue sky is absolutely invisible to you because there's a thick layer of gray, sad clouds that hang above you.
Using a decent weather website, like https://www.ventusky.com/, to show us the cloud coverage was vital in finding our way out of Oxford - driving about 35-40minutes west to find a nice spot where we could see the night sky.
We ended up stopping in the middle of nowhere with me planting my insta360 in the field and setting it to Starlapse.
I honestly had no idea what to expect, this was my fist shooting of this type.
About 10-20mins later and 10 shots made in that time span - I ended up with the following result:
I will definitely be experimenting more with this feature and cannot wait to become better at using the camera itself.
I am just beginning to realise the endless and amazing possibilities with it.
So stay tuned, let me know if you have any cool ideas for how I use it and what you'd like to see me experiment with in terms of videos and special shots using it.
