Meteor and Comet 12/15/2018

 
The dingy winter sky picked the most opportune time to clear this month as the Geminid Meteor Shower and the closest approach of Comet P/46 Wirtanen coincided late this week.

  Thursday night before work I sat out on the deck with camera aimed skyward and caught a bright meteor streaking by.

   Shortly after 1 o'clock this morning I photographed the bluegreen peroidic comet P/Wirtanen as it shoots the gap between the Hyades and Pleiades Star Clusters this weekend.

The Hyades cluster makes up the face of Taurus the Bull.