Perseid Meteor crossing the Milky Way

With the Perseid Meteor shower at its peak on 12 August 2024 I set up my camera with an Unleashed controller to take a series of 15-second exposures and hoped that a meteor would show up. One did.

 

I stacked all 86 photos with 30 darks in AstroPixelProcessor, processed them in PixInsight to bring out the detail of the Milky Way. That of course obliterated the meteor. So I then used Adobe Photoshop to reintroduce the meteor flash. Not ideal, but it shows what happened

 

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Camera: Nikon D5300

Lens: Nikkor 28mm manual

Filter: ICE UV/IR Cut 52mm

Controller: Unleashed v3.2.0 by Foolography GmbH

Settings: ISO 1600

Exposures: 10 seconds

Lights: 86

Darks: 30

 

Bortle: 4

Temperature: 20C

 

Astro Pixel Processor, Pixinsight, Adobe Photoshop CS4

 

 

Done