Catching a Meteor Shower in Goodness Knows Where, South Africa
Somewhere between Wellington and Paarl in the dark hours of early morning a few nights ago – Robyn Gwilt and a couple of other photographers were enjoying “the smell of Africa and sheep, and the cold wind making our cheeks glow pink!” They had set out from Cape Town at 11 pm to find and photograph […]
Somewhere between Wellington and Paarl in the dark hours of early morning a few nights ago – Robyn Gwilt and a couple of other photographers were enjoying “the smell of Africa and sheep, and the cold wind making our cheeks glow pink!”
They had set out from Cape Town at 11 pm to find and photograph the Geminid meteor shower that was visible in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, radiating from near two of the bright stars in the Gemini constellation.
“Driving from Fish Hoek to Goodness-Knows-Where with a bunch of photographer friends on Saturday midnight, to catch Meteor Showers and the Milky Way, was very worthwhile,” says Robyn.
“Although it was pitch dark, city lights from many kilometres away still managed to bleed into the photographs.
“The moon rose at about 0200, and we were loving the exhilirating cold, the smell of sheep poo, and just being on some random farmer’s land, photographing our incredible night-sky!” she says.
Security did check up on them, but “decided we weren’t EFF land-grabbers and left us alone.”