djlr_astro
Looking for Perseids from the garden
Equipment:
Canon 600D with Samyang 14mm lens
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro Mount
This is a composite image comprised of:
Foreground shot - ISO 1600, 4 seconds
Background stack - ISO 1600, 30 x 120 seconds (1 hour integration), Astronomik CLS clip-in filter, taken on Sunday 11th
Meteors - only 6 shots made it in the end, ISO 6400, 15 seconds, unfiltered, taken on Monday 12th
For the first time in a long time, I had a cloudless night here in the UK for the Perseids!
Rather annoyingly, I opted to take my background stack image on the Sunday night which meant I missed out on the Aurora on the following night! Oh well, I was lucky enough to see them earlier in the year back in May.
To capture the meteors, I ran at the highest ISO my camera can go to and took 15 second exposures all night. This provided me with roughly 1,300 exposures to sift through, it is honestly amazing just how many satellites there are these days. In total, I only managed to capture one decent meteor and five small ones. Hopefully the Geminids will provide more later in December.
Lots of light pollution too from my Bortle 6/7 garden here in Swindon, I was too lazy to lug all the gear to my nearest Bortle 4 site.
Looking for Perseids from the garden
Equipment:
Canon 600D with Samyang 14mm lens
Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro Mount
This is a composite image comprised of:
Foreground shot - ISO 1600, 4 seconds
Background stack - ISO 1600, 30 x 120 seconds (1 hour integration), Astronomik CLS clip-in filter, taken on Sunday 11th
Meteors - only 6 shots made it in the end, ISO 6400, 15 seconds, unfiltered, taken on Monday 12th
For the first time in a long time, I had a cloudless night here in the UK for the Perseids!
Rather annoyingly, I opted to take my background stack image on the Sunday night which meant I missed out on the Aurora on the following night! Oh well, I was lucky enough to see them earlier in the year back in May.
To capture the meteors, I ran at the highest ISO my camera can go to and took 15 second exposures all night. This provided me with roughly 1,300 exposures to sift through, it is honestly amazing just how many satellites there are these days. In total, I only managed to capture one decent meteor and five small ones. Hopefully the Geminids will provide more later in December.
Lots of light pollution too from my Bortle 6/7 garden here in Swindon, I was too lazy to lug all the gear to my nearest Bortle 4 site.