Attempt of Shooting Perseid Meteor Shower
Perseids are meteor shower that occurs every year starting approximately mid July, with a peak from 9 to 14 August, depending on the particular location of the stream. At the night of the peak you can see over 60 meteors per hour. It is a very interesting thing to watch and to try to photograph.
It was a month sitting on the hard drive. And it was there because i knew i missed all of them :D
I love photographing Perseids and i did it for few years in a row. This year i could not go out at the night that peak of it was. But i got few hours free the night after so went out to see how good will it be. For two hours i seen at least 30 of them and got on camera 0 :D
It was not a complete waste, i got some decent photos of the stars.
I wanted to go as wide as i could so i used Canon 10-18mm at 10mm. That ment my max aperture is just f/3.5, so i had to go with high ISO at 3200. Exposure was 20 seconds. This first image is a composite of 135 images to get those startrails.
This is a composite of maybe 30 photos with startarils dying off, that gives it a specific look of the trails.
And just to show you how unlucky i was, this was the only meteor that i cached (upper left corner). It was a big one, but i got just a start of it.
A short time-lapse from the shoot
Random news: Djokovic won US Open final 3:0 against Del Potro
Amazing star photos! .The Perseids happen every year on my birthday so they are really special to me. Some years I have been in places on my birthday that it was more conducive to seeing the show than other years, It looks like you were in a great place with a wonderful view of the sky to capture these marvelous photos!
thanks.
you could do an outdoor stars watching birthday party, that could be interesting :D
I have traveled to dark skies on my birthday in the past, but it is hard to find a place around here with good night skies. Chicago and Milwaukee both cause too much light pollution. Unless I can get out of this area, I seldom even make an attempt to see them any more. I did try this year, but no luck.
i did live for a while in a small town (50.000 people) and maybe i did not pay attention to the stars then, but i can't even imagine not to see them. we do take some things for granted in life.
I am happy you can take them for granted. That is the way it should be.
Wow ... awesome photography
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thanks
waow its a incredible wonder of nature . thanks for sharing with us
yes it is, and it is nice to just lie down and watch the sky show
Amazing photos, I would love to see the timelapse though as well, Bad luck for me
thanks.
dtube is acting up, finished uploading and then just said that i did not upload a snap photo and it is all over again :(
They sometimes have that issue.
it is up now, hope it works :D
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thank you curie, it is well appreciated :D
Its so beautiful and thanks for sharing that Bil!
Hope to see your next shoot.
By the way what game was that your random news?
Thanks.
It was the final in men grand slam tennis tournament in USA.
Oh tennis!
Thanks for the response. And nice talking to you Bil.
And thank you for spending your time.
To be honest, i haven't really seen a meteor nice seeing cool pictures of it
not sure where are you from, but i think Perseid is visible from most parts of the world. so just don't forget next year in august :) it is an interesting spectacle of shooting stars
Hello even if you were unlucky(but you still got a start of a meteor:)) i think your stars photos are beautiful i love that u gives the details on your setting for the photos.
thanks.
most of the time i do include settings as some people find it useful, yet sometimes i am lazy :)
for star photography you must go long exposure and high ISO so it was an important info :D
Yes i really think ot is useful i never took stars photos so i really like this kind of informations:)
glad i can help. and i hope you will try it.
Heavenly bodies be like art in motion only appreciated through patient lenses. It's the same sky shown in the eyes of a different lens and these images are amazing to gaze upon. I'm not particular about the details and lighting in photography since I'm ignorant to most of the lessons there. I see a photo, if it's amazing for me, I press like. :D
"I see a photo, if it's amazing for me, I press like. :D" i could say this for all the drawing arts :D
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thanks, hope we meet again :D