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I backpacked to Cathedral Lake near Aspen, CO. I had two objectives: climb Cathedral Peak (featured at center) and photograph sunrise from there, and photograph the Perseid Meteor Shower. Not easy to combine a night photography goal, climbing a mountain, and photographing sunrise in one day, but I managed to pull it off. I'll sleep when I'm dead. :-)
Despite the haze in the night sky from the California fires, this was the best Perseid shower I can remember shooting. There were huge streaks of light on a consistent basis. I was very pleased and just loved laying on my back next to the lake to watch the meteors rain down.
It was a fabulous night of star-gazing and meteor watching! It was VERY dark, so I processed it darkly.
Process:
Out of 413 exposures I shot over the course of several hours during the Perseid Meteor shower, I combined multiple (19) exposures to bring forward all of the meteors I was able to capture. I then combined this with my foreground shot which was exposed for much longer (but not as long as I wanted - I accidentally left my intervalometer at home and forgot to download the PlayMemories app on my phone, so I hand-held the button down, LOL).
Details:
Sony A7R2; Sony 12-24 f/4. 12mm, 30s, ISO 10,000 - 413 shots. Foreground - 12mm, 254s, ISO 3200
a little of it ... this is a composite image of 9 photos ... then my lens fogged up and I didn't realize it : \
116x30 second exposures that I can't use!
drat.
but it was a great night out, so all's well . . .
14mm Nikon 2.8 lens(finally got a chance to try out some better glass!)
a stack of 9x30second images
1600 iso
photo date/id: 20100812_8003b
I stayed home last night but because it was so clear and the neighbourhood lights were minimal. It was perfect!
Perseid Meteor Shower 2010.08.11 -- 01:32:20.
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Dancing in frustration, trying to summon meteorites. ESE.
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30s / 5.6 / ISO800 / 16mm
(0038-Perseids.Shower1_ND34730-Waiting.Dance)
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In order to escape the light contamination from the nearby cities, I drove up the "Barranco de Tagarina" to have a peak of the Perseid Meteor shower. I saw a few, but only captured one....
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Location: Tagarina Mountains, Alicante (SPAIN) [?]
Shot info: 24 mm at f/4.0 for 20.0 sec, 1600 ISO.
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What a long night!!!! I am so tired! Went out about 1 am and went back in at about 4:30. Really disappointed by my first meteor shower photo op!! I don't know if its because we are too close to Chicago, but we did not see that many, and only caught two with the camera. Of course about 1 hour in there was a HUGE one that was out of camera range that got me all psyched about getting a really good one! Oh well!! Better look at this one big so you don't miss the little meteor!!
If you have been following my posts for a while, you may have seen my perseids meteor shower image from Glastonbury last year. I wanted to do a similar image with multiple meteors again this year. And since I was in Cyprus on those dates, I had a great opportunity with clear skies.
Unfortunately bright moon obscured most of the meteors but I manage to capture 9 of them in about 2 hours. And this time you can actually see that they are all radiating from a central point. The bright one in the middle was pretty spectacular and there was smoke from it in the next few images of the sequence!!
I am running an astrophotography workshop in August 2015 in Cyprus. Why don't you join me to photograph the Milky Way and Perseids Meteor Shower?
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I was looking for the meteors, and I saw a few. But they were too fleeting for me to catch on camera. Still, I caught a 'plane, and the International Space Station at least..!
I don't normally shoot night skies but I tried and this happened :-D Drove down to Beachy Head yesterday evening, did few sunset shots and then decided to wait for the perseid meteor shower. What a spectacular show! And the Milky Way was visible with naked eye.
Perseid Meteor Shower 2010.08.11 02:29:15.
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Looking west, 14-24/2.8: 30s / 4.0 / ISO400 / 15mm and slightly fogged.....
(0081-Perseids.Shower1_ND34773-W@2-29)
It may not look it from the image, but this is one of two fireballs I was able to capture during the 2018 Perseid meteor shower peak weekend. This was a longer lived green fireball, but you wouldn't know it by the photo. That's just how hard these things were to capture in the challenging atmospheric conditions we had over the weekend in Northern Illinois -- high haze from Canadian forest fires and high humidity, as well as a high dew point from the surrounding farm fields. This image has been heavily-edited to remove as much of that haze and reflected light pollution as possible. And, contrary to how it looks in the image, the meteor was moving left to right.
Side note: The streak in the upper right is a satellite.
Two startrail images from last night's venture with Nigel, Andrew and the rest to try and capture the Perseid meteor shower. Unfortunately the cloud had the better of us...
In this image a small streak can be seen above the windpump.
Here's the best Perseid meteor I got from last night just before dawn! I hope to get more tonight!
Canon 6D: 15s 8000ISO
Rokinon 14mm @f2.8
Perseid Meteor Shower over Pine Mountain Lake
Set the camera out last night and let it run from midnight to dawn. Found the frames that had meteors in them and combined them in this stacked image. I rotated each frame to match the star pattern of the background layer to compensate for the rotation of the earth. Demonstrates how the meteor shower originates in the constellation of Perseus. It doesn't show up well here, but each of the large meteors start off with a green hue and ends with a slight red hue
Canon 5D Mark ii, Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 @ 1.4, ISO3200, 15 seconds each exposure
A shot I forgot about from this past August back in CO. Thanks to my buddy Matt Hobbs with Vital Films for getting me to this location. This shot was from the same night I did the shots, which facebook did not approve of :) with Leslie. I did a full vertical pano with this but was only able to get half to stitch, but think I like the overall comp.
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D800
6400iso
14mm 2.8
30sec
cropped from a .dng
green tint is 'air glow':
www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/airglow1.htm
photo date/id to order a print: 20120812_800_2345Bb
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... a stack of 230 photos equivalent to about an hour total elapsed time ...
meteors, satellites and stars!
What a gorgeous night!
the two mega meteors at the top, left a smoke trail!
photo date/id to order a print: 20120811_4604stackBb
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D800
6400iso
14mm 2.8
30sec
cropped from a .dng
green tint is 'air glow':
www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/airglow1.htm
photo date/id to order a print: 20120812_800_2354Bb
click the pic to view on black
Aug 10, 2013...Night sky and Milky Way near Knights Ferry. We saw several meteors, but none where the camera was pointed.
While the meteors didn't cooperate, something else IS nicely displayed in this image. Up from the windmill, and to the right a bit, there's a "fuzzy star." This is the Andromeda Galaxy. Not "one" star but about a Trillion! The light we're seeing is genuinely long ago and far away - crossing some 2.5 Million light years. You are seeing that far back in time!
After a long day at work and a quick dash to the north coast of Ireland nothing could be better than sitting back with camera clicking away every 8 seconds watching ...
Thirteen blended long exposures (2-3 mins each) taken late Sunday evening... They were captured over a Thirty-Five minute period.
This is really pushing my poor T2i beyond its limits with low light performance... (looking into upgrading to the Canon EOS 70D)
(View from my) Side Yard
Lehman, Pennsylvania
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
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We had a LOVELY view of the meteor shower from our backyard last night. However, I was setting up to take a photo of last night's waning crescent moon, & thought for fun, I'd try one BULB shot to try and get a photo of the shower. Low & behold, FIRST attempt, I caught one. Not happy with the overall quality of the shot, but thought I'd share this one.
I went down to one of my familiar spots to see if a could catch the Perseid meteor shower that was expected.
It was not quite the show I was expecting to see. There was probably one every 2-3 mins and most were to the south west( I was facing west)
I never thought I caught any at all and was plesently surprised when I got home and downloaded the images to view full size.
I don't know how many are from planes as some seem to be taking the same path
Taken at ISO1600 at F2.8 with my trusted Tokina 11-16mm /Nikon D300 mix
I cropped a good bit off the bottom of this image.
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August 12th - peak of the annual Perseids meteor shower.& I got nada!Saw about 15 streaks however the clouds rolled in and I missed the boat.I was happy with the images 7 plan to go back!
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Last night was round 2 of the Perseid Meteor Shower and I headed to one of my favorite spots to try again, the Mattituck Oak tree. I adjusted some things (used a faster lens even though it wasn't as wide, and shortened my exposure to 10sec from 30sec to try to catch one). I saw dozens of them while I was out in the dark field for about an hour but only managed to capture one. That one I captured had another element that I love and that's the silhouette of a large deer standing in the distance watching me, this was something I couldn't see with my blind eye in that darkness so it was rather cool to see.
During the Perseids Meteor Shower it seemed I was never facing the right way. So started playing around with other effects I have learned and seen online, Michael I know is one. You basically zoom the lens while the shutter is open. I got lucky in this frame as I liked how the tent stayed clear and the trees look like the sun is leaking through.
Canon 5D MK III
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L II
ISO 3200
f/2.8
25 Seconds
Induro Tripods CT 214
Taken up at Elk Camp on Snowmass Mountain Aspen/Snowmass
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I was able to find a clear patch of sky last night with the Milky Way visible and clouds lit up by lightning I was even able to capture a couple of perseid meteors. Lake Meredith is located near the small town of Ordway, CO.
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My first shot of a meteor- during the Perseids Meteor Shower on 11 Aug 2009. Shot atop Mt. Hamilton, San Jose with the Lick Observatory in the foreground.
The meteor streak is clearly visible top right of the frame. The trails in the bottom half are 4 separate airplanes during the 9-minute exposure period.
The light to the right of the observatory is the rising moon, which ended up playing spoilsport to being able to catch the peak of the shower over the next few hours. This shot in itself however, made all the effort worthwhile! ©Kunal Rohilla, 2009