Shot in town. from 3am to 5am
1 20 second shot every 40 seconds.
I managed to get 2.
I plan to go to a darker zone tonight. Funny how work gets in the way of some things.
In the 2nd image, it looks like you have a satellite. Satellites have constant brightness (and may look like a barber's pole the way they are spinning). Meteors tend to start out faint and end much brighter.
JimH123 wrote:
In the 2nd image, it looks like you have a satellite. Satellites have constant brightness (and may look like a barber's pole the way they are spinning). Meteors tend to start out faint and end much brighter.
The ones that I visually saw were very quick and very short lived. I only had one or two long drawn out meteors that I of course was not shooting at the time.
I'm hoping to get to a dark zone tonight and get some of the rag tag leftovers. It's pretty difficult to shoot in a red zone. At least we are not white anymore.
Jim
I got up at 3am (no thanks to my daughter's yappy Chihuahua I'm babysitting for a few days...)so I went outside to observe what should have been the optimum view of the shower. Half an hour. Nada. Zip. Whoopee.
skylane5sp wrote:
I got up at 3am (no thanks to my daughter's yappy Chihuahua I'm babysitting for a few days...)so I went outside to observe what should have been the optimum view of the shower. Half an hour. Nada. Zip. Whoopee.
It ran in little spurts here. Again, red zone is not optimal viewing but I did see close to 12 in about a 20 minute window, then I didn't see anything for a bit. I never saw a great deal here.
Sorry you didn't see anything at all.
Nice shots Jim.
Craig From cloudy So Calif.
CraigFair wrote:
Nice shots Jim.
Craig From cloudy So Calif.
Last night was mostly clear but I shot until 1:30 and did not see a single meteor.
Sorry about the clouds. My high pressure shifted your way instead of Texas. I was just too tired to go anywhere
SonnyE
Loc: Communist California, USA
I was having trouble with my settings, so I asked GT what he recommended.
ISO 3200. 25 second exposures. And I decided to give the camera a 2 sec delay, and a 3 sec storage pause.
So my exposures were 5 seconds apart (total), and each 25 seconds long.
These are amassed on a 64G fast SD Card.
In retrospect, maybe a faster (lower F-stop than 3.5) lens would have changed the game.
I have always liked time lapse photography.
But the meteors I did catch were (obviously at 25 seconds) only a single frame out of hundreds.
Airplanes, on the other hand, were 3-4 frames long. Slow pokes that they are. ;)
And with the clouds I'm back turning pens.
This is from the Myrtle you sent me.
SonnyE
Loc: Communist California, USA
Myrtle is looking pretty sexy there....
Woo-Hoo!
On the 11th, GT, Hanna, and I decided we really did not care what the weather might bring. We were going to have fun in spite of it.
So Gordon showed us "Light Painting" and we had a blast with it.
Hanna was taking a lot of great shots, while I was trying my best to keep up.
Point being, damn the weather, have fun!
With a little creativity, I could see Myrtle developing a bust line along that upper curve.... :twisted: ;)
(Yep, I am hopelessly a red blooded American male...)
SonnyE wrote:
Myrtle is looking pretty sexy there....
Woo-Hoo!
On the 11th, GT, Hanna, and I decided we really did not care what the weather might bring. We were going to have fun in spite of it.
So Gordon showed us "Light Painting" and we had a blast with it.
Hanna was taking a lot of great shots, while I was trying my best to keep up.
Point being, damn the weather, have fun!
With a little creativity, I could see Myrtle developing a bust line along that upper curve.... :twisted: ;)
(Yep, I am hopelessly a red blooded American male...)
Myrtle is looking pretty sexy there.... br br Woo... (
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Whoa, look at you and your new avatar..
Nice!
SonnyE
Loc: Communist California, USA
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Whoa, look at you and your new avatar..
Nice!
That is Thanks to GTinSoCal!
SonnyE wrote:
I was having trouble with my settings, so I asked GT what he recommended.
ISO 3200. 25 second exposures. And I decided to give the camera a 2 sec delay, and a 3 sec storage pause.
So my exposures were 5 seconds apart (total), and each 25 seconds long.
These are amassed on a 64G fast SD Card.
In retrospect, maybe a faster (lower F-stop than 3.5) lens would have changed the game.
I have always liked time lapse photography.
But the meteors I did catch were (obviously at 25 seconds) only a single frame out of hundreds.
Airplanes, on the other hand, were 3-4 frames long. Slow pokes that they are. ;)
I was having trouble with my settings, so I asked ... (
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On my Tokina 16-28 f/2.8 I have tried the f/3.5 & f/4 and didn't like them as much as the f/2.8 at 25 sec and ISO 800. The faster f/stop allowed me to lower the the ISO which I think gives me a cleaner, less noisy shot.
This shot is actually shot at ISO 200, 30 sec & f/2.8, 16mm
SonnyE
Loc: Communist California, USA
CraigFair wrote:
On my Tokina 16-28 f/2.8 I have tried the f/3.5 & f/4 and didn't like them as much as the f/2.8 at 25 sec and ISO 800. The faster f/stop allowed me to lower the the ISO which I think gives me a cleaner, less noisy shot.
This shot is actually shot at ISO 200, 30 sec & f/2.8, 16mm
And... your original after I tried my hand with it. :-o
That is a beautiful shot, Craig. ;)
I did an Auto Adjust of Brightness and Contrast; Then cranked the contrast out to 100% to get the sky black again.
As much as I don't like it, I'm becoming a PP pooper.
Craigs original after I fiddled with it mildly in Elements 12
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SonnyE
Loc: Communist California, USA
Since I retired, Jim, I just don't see how I had time to waste at work. ;)
I look forward to you finding the freedom Retirement will bring. :)
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