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Astrophotography is one of the most complex forms of photography mankind has ever devised. This is the first time I have captured a "fast meteor".
One exposure - 10s - three perseids .
Dąbrówka, view of Werówka .
At our place, the Perseids flew like crazy at the beginning of the night. The view of the Milky Way is breathtaking. Something Great, unforgettable views of the starry sky.
The only reason I posted this photo was that 3 Perseids were captured in 10s. These are my first attempts with a new body and high ISO. The technical quality of this photo leaves a lot to be desired - to say the least - and it is actually still quite poor. technically, it has only one advantage - good sharpening. The type of night landscape photography with stars is the type of photography that I want to develop further.
The bottom of the frame is a very poor part of this photo, unfortunately the view of the Verve lights and high ISO does the job. The only chance of better quality is to use a low ISO and tracker (planned), and then make a mosaic or mosaic with Milky Way stacking ... use lightpainting for the foreground. These are the plans, but slowly to the goal.
Did not plan our trip this summer to Nova Scotia for the meteor shower, but could not have lucked out more for a great spot with dark skies there in remote White Point, Nova Scotia where for two nights around the peak were clear nights. This was taken on Saturday night where was able to get two meteors in the frame, as well as several satellites ...
Andromeda Galaxy can also be seen in this capture.
... we continue our adventures in this pretty area of Canada.
Cheers!
So, had a play with some of my Perseids meteors, heavy edits on some images to make them brighter and changed the reference point a little, comments most welcome
Lost some sleep getting this shot. The Perseids meteor shower this year was one to remember. Of course the best ones were slightly out of frame or between exposures. Still I have never seen it like this. Must of been 200-300 per hour. I shot this in the Kern River Canyon from 1:30am until 4:00am. 275 30sec exposures. I took the best 15 or so and lined them up.
DeepSkyStacker + Lr - my first attempts to stack photos. Photo consisting of 21 photos with exposure parameters 12 mm, f / 2.8, ISO 3200, 5s - OBO tripod + Manfrotto XPRO 3W.
I have calculated that for an observer using a 12mm lens (MFT) and an eye resolution of max 1 "angle (this is for a person with great eyesight and for good eyesight it is 2" angular) - the maximum exposure time for getting the view of unmoving stars is about 4,33 s. Such photos without visible foreground can be snapped and then folded as panels with the foreground not moved into a mosaic.
I wanted to check if (O-MD E-M10 Mark II) M.Zuiko 12-40 mm f / 2.8 could work in the landscape field Astro (with the subject of the foreground on the ground) without a head with guidance (sky with stars as mosaic panels ) - please give me an opinion.
I am thinking of using Star Adventurer or iOptron Skyguider Pro, but since the results of star formation are punctual, does it make sense to use the head leading to the astro landscape with the subject of the foreground on earth?
The blurred glow at the bottom of the photo comes from slowly flowing clouds gently lit by the glare of lights from a city 20 km away (Opoczno).
This year’s Perseid meteor shower in northern Colorado was marked by smoky skies and moonshine during the best viewing times. However there were fairly clear skies the last night of “peak” viewing, and even with the thin veil of haze the show was beautiful.
This photo is a compilation of 16 shots, one for the base (foreground snags and stars) taken fairly early in the evening, and the others with individual meteor trails added adjusting for the approximate orientation to the constellation Perseus, in the northern portion of the Milky Way. The tree snags are wind-sculpted limber pines on Grassy Top, a promontory on the east side of the Front Range near Ward, CO.
The colors in the meteor streaks are due to ionization of elements in the dust particles (from comet Swift-Tuttle) as they burn up in the atmosphere. Perseids are characteristically a mix of pink, blue and green as you can see here.
I did go out with the nuts to take photos of the Perseid Meteor shower - they were not as abundant or visible as we expected according to the news. I have seen big shows in my past on trips out west.
Anyhow this is a composite of a barn and the sky. The meteors were too high above the horizon where we were located so I had to add the barns to make an interesting image - so Happy Slider's Sunday!! (HSS)
There are 3 meteors in this image - the one that is really visible and then two very close together near middle center if you blow up the photo you can see.
Star trails around the pole during the Perseid meteor shower, a composite of 49 frames; a couple of fairly bright meteors and a couple of other fainter ones.
Tech: Nikon D800, Nikon 15mm f/3.5, ISO 1600, 49 frames, 60 sec. each.
Explored August 20, 2015
A star circle during the Perseid meteor shower. If you look carefully, you shoud be able to count at least five. :-)
Stacked images of images I took of the Perseids meteor shower over a few hours showing the radius using iPhone 6 and nightcap pro app, stacked in CS6
My friends/family and I had planned a day(??)trip to the high desert for peak Perseids meteor shower viewing but were thwarted by clouds. So, we gave it a go the next day - clear and crisp all night long, lots of oohs and aaahs.
This is my single-frame fave from 8 hours' shooting time, two cameras, for a couple of reasons. The northern end of the Milky Way shines over those Joshua Tree NP boulders, and then of course there's the meteor - has some nice color in it. Just natural light on those boulders, by the way. Check it large for a good look at the color in that meteor. Andromeda Galaxy way to the lower right there too.