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When you wish upon a star
So, it was that time of year again, when the night skies light up to the gentle rain of meteorites that constitute the Perseids. I am on a year long project to photograph this lone tree, known as Lonely Joe and was particularly excited for this months attempts as I really wanted to get a meteor above it.
Unfortunately the weather was against me and the two peak nights of showing were either heavily clouded or totally clouded......thanks again british weather lol.
However on the Monday the skies were clear and even though there is a significant drop off of meteors after the peak I felt it was still worth a very late night and a crappy day at work the following day to try and get one at least.
I set the camera up in my usual spot but went with a portrait orientation instead of my usual landscape as I wanted as much of the sky as possible. I had borrowed my mate Daves Nikon 14-24mm f2.8 lens for this session-I recommend this lens highly for any astro Nikon users out there, it really pairs well with my Nikon Z6 for astro work.
I decided to run the intravelometer and set it up to take 450 images and stood back to enjoy the sky while the camera did all the work. However for some reason my camera kept stopping at 86 images. I have no idea why this was happening and it was quite frustrating as I was aiming for a timelapse to dazzle you all with. Grumbling to myself and the the 12 or so glow worms who were keeping me company I swithched back to manually taking the images. By midnight I had seen a few but nothing that was showing up well on the camera. The milky way was looking impressive despite the attempt by my fellow humans to completely ruin that view with light pollution, even here in the heart of Somerset, problematic. I had just clicked the shutter for the next shot when the sky above my head was lit up by the brightest Persied I have ever seen. It was huge and even after it faded there was a really nice afterglow in the sky. I held my breath while I waited for the exposure to finish before checking the back of the camera to see if I had it. YES! got it! Well most of it. I was missing the last third but I loved that it was tracking down the line of the MW.
I was jigging around, the glow worms wondering who this giant creature was disturbing their night of potential breeding!
So here it is. Augusts image od Lonely Joe and one of my favourite photos this year. Enjoy!
When you wish upon a star
So, it was that time of year again, when the night skies light up to the gentle rain of meteorites that constitute the Perseids. I am on a year long project to photograph this lone tree, known as Lonely Joe and was particularly excited for this months attempts as I really wanted to get a meteor above it.
Unfortunately the weather was against me and the two peak nights of showing were either heavily clouded or totally clouded......thanks again british weather lol.
However on the Monday the skies were clear and even though there is a significant drop off of meteors after the peak I felt it was still worth a very late night and a crappy day at work the following day to try and get one at least.
I set the camera up in my usual spot but went with a portrait orientation instead of my usual landscape as I wanted as much of the sky as possible. I had borrowed my mate Daves Nikon 14-24mm f2.8 lens for this session-I recommend this lens highly for any astro Nikon users out there, it really pairs well with my Nikon Z6 for astro work.
I decided to run the intravelometer and set it up to take 450 images and stood back to enjoy the sky while the camera did all the work. However for some reason my camera kept stopping at 86 images. I have no idea why this was happening and it was quite frustrating as I was aiming for a timelapse to dazzle you all with. Grumbling to myself and the the 12 or so glow worms who were keeping me company I swithched back to manually taking the images. By midnight I had seen a few but nothing that was showing up well on the camera. The milky way was looking impressive despite the attempt by my fellow humans to completely ruin that view with light pollution, even here in the heart of Somerset, problematic. I had just clicked the shutter for the next shot when the sky above my head was lit up by the brightest Persied I have ever seen. It was huge and even after it faded there was a really nice afterglow in the sky. I held my breath while I waited for the exposure to finish before checking the back of the camera to see if I had it. YES! got it! Well most of it. I was missing the last third but I loved that it was tracking down the line of the MW.
I was jigging around, the glow worms wondering who this giant creature was disturbing their night of potential breeding!
So here it is. Augusts image od Lonely Joe and one of my favourite photos this year. Enjoy!