Watch and photograph a meteor shower.

“I took this from my front porch where I saw a meteor and its smoke trail which was visible to the naked eye for about 20 seconds. I saw many large meteors and photographed about half a dozen. I used a Canon camera and a 24 to 85mm lens set at 24mm. The exposures are 3.2 seconds. It was a perfect night! Very little wind, cool but not cold, no mosquitoes, and lots of colourful meteors. All the big ones started green and burnt out pink”

“The 2012 Geminid shower was the first meteor shower I attempted to photograph. It was an eye-opening experience, simultaneously frustrating and fun. Over a 3 night period, I shot 672 images of the night sky using both my Canon Powershot and Canon Rebel XT. After hours of recording, all I have to show for it is some star trail images, and one measly photo of a real Geminid meteor: The first two nights I was shooting with ISO 400, which in hindsight looks like it was just too low to pick up the fast and faint meteors. Although I saw dozens with the naked eye, they just weren't registering on the cameras.”