Joshua Tree NP - Perseid trip :-) (Page 2): From GT's lead post, what I was watching for.... An Airplane navigates the Milky Way... Or was that a Star Cruiser, or the Enterprise? (In...

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

From GT's lead post, what I was watching for....

An Airplane navigates the Milky Way...
Or was that a Star Cruiser, or the Enterprise?

(In my dreams...) ;)

I love your one: "a few Perseids, and a couple of stragglers "
Could you please share the settings, GT?
Was that one of your 4 minute shots?

I think I learned more on this trip than a year+ of my own.

The Enterprise goes to Warp 8...

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GTinSoCal Loc: Palmdale, CA

I vote for the Enterprise NCC-1701 :-)

the shot with multiple meteors is a composition of 4 different exposures. Each 20 sec at ISO 6400.

GT

SonnyE wrote:

From GT's lead post, what I was watching for....

An Airplane navigates the Milky Way...
Or was that a Star Cruiser, or the Enterprise?

(In my dreams...) ;)

I love your one: "a few Perseids, and a couple of stragglers "
Could you please share the settings, GT?
Was that one of your 4 minute shots?

I think I learned more on this trip than a year+ of my own.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Ah-Ha!
You sneaky devil, you. :lol: ;-)

That explains why I never got more than one in a frame... ;)

I stayed with 25 seconds @ 3200 ISO for my intervalometer sets.
Which I just got sorted. Now DSS is digesting one.
Only 13+ hours to go.... :XD:

GTinSoCal Loc: Palmdale, CA

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I looked at the ones that had a meteor, and was somewhat underwhelmed :-(
The ah-ha moment, lighten blending mode in Photoshop. Tada!

I do have one frame with several planes it, going all sorts of directions!

I don't have enough frames to do a time lapse, the one that I thought I was going to use, I interrupted for shots of Hannah.

GT

SonnyE wrote:

Ah-Ha!
You sneaky devil, you. :lol: ;-)

That explains why I never got more than one in a frame... ;)

I stayed with 25 seconds @ 3200 ISO for my intervalometer sets.
Which I just got sorted. Now DSS is digesting one.
Only 13+ hours to go.... :XD:

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Underwhelmed... Actually, my frames that actually contain a meteor are all singles, and somewhat far stretched.
But the lens caught more than my eyes did, I think.

I did a set-it and forget-it with my location runs.
It amassed several hundred shots in some.
Geese, DSS is on 8 of 152, and counting 10's of thousands of stars.
I don't care if it runs in the background, I just hope it amounts to something. :roll:

My time elapse file (piles) amount to around 150, up to very nearly 300 (296, 298) pictures.
Both of the late night runs got the sunrise as a finish.

When I get some built and up, I'll be sure to post links.
Thanks for sharing!

PS: MAN! Startrails sure works the files faster to make it's video's. :D

proteus1 Loc: NEVADA

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you..

ONE AND ALL ! ! !

What a great post by everyone, I really enjoyed all of the photos, what a great job you all did. Not only that but sounds like all of you had a great time...

Keep them coming..

Thanks again
WALT

GTinSoCal Loc: Palmdale, CA

I guess I'm down to uploading one at a time now...
:-)

GT

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SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Still working on stuff...
But see if this works for anybody.
Not exactly thrilling, but it runs.
(Like paint... :lol: )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/133673946@N02/20575080786/in/datetaken/

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

SonnyE wrote:

Still working on stuff...
But see if this works for anybody.
Not exactly thrilling, but it runs.
(Like paint... :lol: )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/133673946@N02/20575080786/in/datetaken/

Better than anything I managed! You did have *something* (plane, satellite, meteor?) shoot across in the middle there, but too fast to make out more.

Keep them coming... The rest of us need a fix!

dlmorris Loc: Loma Linda, Ca

Nice time lapse! It runs very smoothly, and it is interesting to see the sky change colors a couple of times thoughout the movie. The clouds add interest, and it looks like you caught a contrail blowing through. Now you can stack them and get a star trails image. Two for the price of one!

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Bloke wrote:

Better than anything I managed! You did have *something* (plane, satellite, meteor?) shoot across in the middle there, but too fast to make out more.

Keep them coming... The rest of us need a fix!

Thanks!
I think that was most likely a plane, at 15 frames a second.
The meteor images are but single frames and if one did show up it would be gone in 1/15 of a second.
Make sense?

In other words, it would be gone like a mosquitoes fart in a tornado... Pretty fast.

But it is neat to see the "sky" move, seeing as we are the center of the universe and all rotates around us. :?
:lol:

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

dlmorris wrote:

Nice time lapse! It runs very smoothly, and it is interesting to see the sky change colors a couple of times thoughout the movie. The clouds add interest, and it looks like you caught a contrail blowing through. Now you can stack them and get a star trails image. Two for the price of one!

Thanks.
Yeah, I'm having some difficulties right now with the old Box-O-Rocks. I finally shut it down and Windoze 10 decided it wanted to upgrade. :?
So I'll just keep plugging along trying to win. ;)
But I do have a Star-trail baking for your pleasure. I'll get it posted when it is done. :)

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

GTinSoCal wrote:

I guess I'm down to uploading one at a time now...
:-)

GT

Very good Gordon. Excellent composition.
Craig

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Whew! Finally.
Moving right along... (yeah... right...)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/133673946@N02/20602289322/in/datetaken/

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

SonnyE wrote:

Whew! Finally.
Moving right along... (yeah... right...)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/133673946@N02/20602289322/in/datetaken/

It seems there is something wrong with your link. First time I clicked it, it just logged me into flickr. After that, it just says bad link...