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August 12 - 10 PM - I was setting up my equipment to capture the annual maximum of the Perseid meteor shower! For 2 hours I missed multiple meteors "fallin...
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August 12 - 10 PM - I was setting up my equipment to capture the annual maximum of the Perseid meteor shower! For 2 hours I missed multiple meteors "falling" just outside my camera's field of view, or worse - to the opposite side of my imaging area! A few minutes after midnight I got this feeling inside me that pushed me to change my wide field lens, with a 200mm f-4 and move my camera towards Andromeda to shoot a dozen of frames of this galaxy! I focused the image then started my first 300 sec exposure image. Then the 2nd image, 3rd, 4th ....by this time I've seen 10-15 meteors crossing the sky where I had my camera oriented in the beginning. Then the 5th frame, 6th.... nothing so far!
But when the camera was exposing for the 8th frame... I've seen it with my eyes! A bright meteor was crossing my frame just under the Andromeda galaxy!
You couldn't guess how excited I was! Finally a meteor inside my frame! And a spectacular one, in an amazing composition!
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But when the camera was exposing for the 8th frame... I've seen it with my eyes! A bright meteor was crossing my frame just under the Andromeda galaxy!
You couldn't guess how excited I was! Finally a meteor inside my frame! And a spectacular one, in an amazing composition!
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Andrewdsmit
September 01, 2015
I don't mean to be a buzz kill but how did you zoom so far using a 200mm lens only and at 300secs exposure, how did you not get light trails. I can barely get the moon a decent size with my 200mm lens.
daniyyeln
September 01, 2015
It's called "star tracking"....you put your camera on an equatorial mount that tracks the movement of the stars!
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