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This image is a crop version of three of the time-shifted meteors from this image:
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricoshanchez/9501793661/]
Description and technical details are with the original
This is my first real attempt at astrophography. The hardest thing was focusing with no real references. Next time I may focus at infinity before I leave home.
The coyotes yapping just 100-yards away were a little unnerving.
This is ISO 6400 with f/4 at 25-sec. using my 5D MkIII and 24-105mm zoom at 24mm. The light polution is from Denver, even though I'm around 40-miles out to the Northeast. I could eliminate that by shooting almost straight up, but the meteors were coming from lower in the sky. I didn't even see this particular one until I processed the image, adding lots of contrast.
A photo I took while camping in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the Perseid meteor shower. You can really see the Milky Way in this one. Photo by Duncan Smith.
Who would have guessed these amazing trails were made by dust sized particles emitted by a comet as they move through our atmoshpere? This is a compilation of around 30 photographs culled from > 700 shot between 10:30 pm and 4 am. The trails are adjusted (somewhat) to account for the movement of Earth during the night, showing that the meteors emerge from the constellation Perseus. The color of the meteor streaks are related to the chemistry of the dust; the Perseids are quite colorful relative to other meteor showers.
Shot from Grassy Top near Ward, Colorado, with a light painted limber pine snag in the foreground.
Turns out "Fairy dust" is also a perfume by Paris Hilton....
Stayed out all night hoping for some shots of the Perseid Meteor Showers. Saw maybe a dozen, but only managed to get one in the frame and this is it! Did get to experiment with some light painting, and was pleasantly surprised with the results. The trees in the foreground were lit up just a bit with my flashlight just to add a little detail and dimension.
mikedooleyphotography.com/photography/light-painting-nigh...
At approximately 22:28 PDT on August 2, 2008 a brilliant fireball was witnessed by myself and several others at the Polaris Observatory Association site about 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The terminal burst was so bright that it lit up the entire surroundings as if a camera flash had gone off. Luckily I was taking a 5-minute exposure of the milky way at the time, and caught the fireball in my shot.
The glow to lower left is Los Angeles. You just can't escape the light pollution. As for the fireball, it left a prominent smoke train that we watched through binoculars and a telescope for about 5 minutes as it twisted and blew away in the high atmosphere.
Taken on Sunday, August 11th, 2013 near Madrid, Iowa, a Perseid meteor streaks through the Milky Way section of the sky just before the clouds rolled in.
The only one i got! 300:1
Update: 1st Jan 2018:
Ultimate Guide To 2018 Meteor Showers How To Photograph Them
First of several images and videos I'm working on from Sunday night at Glacier Point. I had three cameras running continuously from 10pm to 4am. I processed this image first because it will be the easiest.
This image contains 27 meteors; all time-shifted (by hand) to show how they originate from the same constellation (Perseus). Since Perseus appears to move through the sky during the night, a simple stack of the meteors would show a lot of randomness. By time-shifting them to correct for the apparent movement of the constellation, it is easier to see how they originate from the same area.
Shot from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park
Canon 5D MarkII, Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 at f/1.4. Each meteor exposure was 15s at ISO3200. Foreground was ISO400 for 135s taken just as the moon was setting.
After seeing it on flickr, I edited the original to change white balance on sky and brighten the image a tad
10 hours round trip drive to Central Oregon to check off another one of the “1000 places to go before you die” places. Crater Lake was definitely commando mosquitoes infested. At any point of time, there were more than 30 mosquitoes surrounding me and they totally bit through my hoodie.. Totally not exaggerating. They definitely had their fill of my sweet O+ blood for a couple hours. All that for the awesome milky way that made the sunrise after that seem ho hum. Was it worth it? I think so, because it was definitely one of the most magical moments of my life as so many shooting stars streaked across the velvet sky and the milky way spiraled its way in the vastness of the galaxy that I was looking at. One word to summarize it all: Surreal. On a side note, happy birthday Bro.
These two fotos are the best of 3 meteors I caught Tuesday morning.
30 sec, f3.5, 18mm,3200 ISO, SOOC.
Elevation 6300 ft in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
Perseid Meteor Shower near Baker City Oregon.
This is a composite image of the Perseid meteors taken last weekend during my annual Dead Ox Ranch campout.
We had such an amazing time. It was hot in the daytime, but the night time photo sessions were amazing. It was like playing outside after sunset in the Summer heat with my friends when I was a kid.
For this image I gathered some falling stars during the night time by setting my camera up to shoot 30 second exposures for three hours automatically. Once I gathered some meteors I masked them out of the images to be overlaid to this amazing Milky Way sky which already contained a cool meteor and a great old abandoned ranch house ruin.
It's not often that I create an artistic composite image, but this is a perfect situation for such an image.
I hope that you like it. :)
Fresh from the camera club's great night capturing star trails, and with the information from the local weather station that the Perseid Meteor Shower was reaching it's peak, I set up the camera in my guest room.
Over looking the back yard isn't usually as interesting as the view at the front but even so, the show didn't disappoint.
For the next few days we have a Supermoon coinciding with the annual Pereid Meteor Shower. Here the Supermoon is seen over the old buildings on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Sadly Britain is currently getting the tail-end of Hurricane Bertha, which hit the USA last week. We have clouds and lots of rain so will be lucky the see anything of either the meteor shower or the Supermoon tonight.
I've been waiting for the dark skies to return so I could go and get some shots from down next to Tunstall Reservoir in Weardale. The trees are up lit by the high beams on my car. Caught a nice bright meteor as well.
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David's work is incredibly beautiful... I am happy to see such quality and attention to detail. I find this kind of effort really exciting. It takes me back...;)) Of course, I no longer have very good tools, so I use what I have...;)) I had no plan, and just did things as they occurred to me. Were I to do this comparison again, I would do it much more carefully. It was fun to see what I could do in a short amount of time.
Please view this comparison at Original Size
I just realized, I should have used David's full size image in Flickr, not what was shown in his Photostream. So don't read this!! Or, read it at your own risk...;))
Comparison: The flickr image is on the right.
David commented on the poor quality of the Flickr image:
"I just realized how awful this looks on flickr! Much better view on my site www.davidkinghamphotography.com/night/h626c32b#h626c32b
umm that is when my site comes back online....this went completely viral on facebook and g+ and apparently overloaded my domain"
Back to Me (Chic):
I tried to compare the images side by side on my iMac 22 inch computer screen. I have not calibrated it recently, so it's not accurate in any way! Beware.
My eyesight is not great, I need new prescriptions.
I have noticed that I lose a few intensity levels and some dynamic range when posting to Flickr. I brighten things up a bit before posting. I do see the same change in David's Flickr shot.
Also, I did introduce some unintended artifacts such as the non-straight meteor paths. This is just due to the need to expand the images in Apple's Preview program to get the images to the same size. The originals were perfectly straight in both images.
David's websight does appear to have a higher pixel density, so he is right there. That would appear to be a significant difference.
All in all, this is really a test of my eyesight. I am sure David is right. I do trust David's judgment...
A long perseid meteor starring in a shot taken some nights ago with a Sigma circular fisheye lens.
EXIF: Canon 70D, Sigma circular fisheye 4.5 mm f/2.8 @ f/3.2, iso 8k, 30''.
Photography: doudoulakis.blogspot.com/
500px: 500px.com/csath07
We heard about a meteor shower that was happening one of the nights we were in Kauai and decided to try and find a remote spot with as little light pollution as possible. Obviously we didn't find the best spot with all of the cars whizzing by on the highway.
I figured I might as well capture the moment and see if I could get any of the meteors in the photo while I was at it. I set up my tripod so that I had our rentals and the highway in the shot while getting the sky at the same time. What is crazy is that a meteor flew right through the middle of the part of the sky I was pointing my camera at.
there was a gathering at the Thoreson Farm last night to watch the
Perseid Meteor shower and look through various telescopes at the moon,
planets and star clusters ... the best part was that families had gathered
with blankets and took up residence on the grounds to watch for meteors ...
when one burned across the atmosphere, there were oohs and aaahs like
at a fireworks show, but even better because these were natural and so
unpredictable. Kids audibly kept count and challenged the rest of the family
to a counting competition ... I think the largest number I heard was 30
and that was after much pleading when the score was 29 ... 'please,
just one more' ... ! what an awesome family bonding experience . . .
thank you Sleeping Bear Dune Park and the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society
for putting this event on!
more info on the club here:
timelapsed glimpse is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNTJjKJ-Fqo
Enjoy!
photo date/id: 20130810_1508pano
30 min. @ f10...... taken shortly after moonrise, moon @ 95% full.....
spent the last week camping on the Bruce Penninsula..... good beer, great times, awesome company :)
but I did manage to set the camera up for a few night captures, lucky enough to capture a meteor in this one.....
the drive home was not the greatest, light rain most of the way.... until we got to Goderich and a tornado came thru, survived that with nothing more than nervous twitch :)
The recent forecast of the Perseid meteor showers excited the astro nerd in me to drive around the county at midnight seeking the best areas to capture this phenomena.
Sorry no EXIF info as the Rokinon 14mm is totally manual.
(Note to self; I have to learn how to download this lens' profile and upload it into Photoshop and Lightroom)
Perseid meteor shower at Smith Rock State Park, Oregon. #oregon #exploreoregon #traveloregon #pnw #nikon #nikonD7200 #photography #smithrockstatepark #astrophotography #milkyway #perseidmeteorshower
Perseid Meteor Shower 2018 from near Paso Robles. There are 21 Perseid Meteors and 2 random stray meteors stacked together as if they had all occurred at 1:30am. We shot from 9pm on Sunday until 4am on Monday. What a great night!
The two strays are the ones not pointing toward the center of the frame, which is the radiant for the Perseid Meteors. The light pollution is from the Fresno area.
Sony A7S, Samyang 14mm f/2.8 at f/2.8, 20s, ISO12,800. Stacked using the time-shifting technique pioneered by David Kingham: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7JVwSX1iAg
Perseid meteor showers 2017 from Torrance Barrens Dark-sky Preserve ! Nice a day Trip with my daughter, really nice to see meteor showers!!! see you next year! one Star passed over milky way
Third eMotimo sequence during the Perseid meteor shower, tracking the Milky Way, with an illuminated boulder in the foreground.
A total exposure time of 6 hours was able to capture all 14 meteors and the two iridium flares in this frame. Taken in Walker Ranch near Boulder, Colorado.
A strange flare observed during a 45 minute star trail shoot at Knabs Ridge wind farm near Harrogate, UK.
The flare looked quite similar to the ones created by Iridium satellites, however, Iridium prediction tables indicate that it was at a wrong time and magnitude - it must've been from a different satellite. I also observed a few meteors from the diminishing Perseid shower during this exposure, but unfortunately, none of them made it to the frame :(
I hadn't done a star trail shoot in quite a while and when I checked the forecast to see completely clear sky through the whole night in addition to the nearly full moon, I decided to grab my camera and go out to the countryside. And it was worth it! :)
Nikon D90
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6
10mm | F/5.6 | ISO400 | 86 x 30 sec (stacked exposure)
Explored | August 18th, 2011: #66.
D800
8000iso
14mm 2.8
20sec
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_2304Bb
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