Perseid Meteor Photos!

Matthew Saville

Who else has been shooting this? I'm hoping to make it out to Joshua Tree NP tomorrow night (Monday Night / Tuesday morning) for the "grand finale" here on the West Coast. But so far, it's been pretty impressive!


(30 mins worth of meteors / satellites, stacked in PS)





(Larger versions at my new SmugMug page: http://photos.matthewsaville.com, and I recorded a brief tutorial at SLR Lounge: http://www.slrlounge.com/how-to-photograph-a-meteor-shower-2013-perseid)

Will anybody else be going out in the next few nights to shoot this?

joshhuntnm

beautiful. nice work. Looking forward to seeing the finale.

ksavedra

Cool shots! Learning how to shoot at night is on my to do list, I especially like the first one, with the industrial vs natural night lights.

Dreadnote

Got this one Saturday night:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=238588

Probably should have posted it here in landscapes.

Vycor

Couldn't shoot it here on Long Island... too much light polution and the parks that remained opened, too many people with their headlights and flashlights on, ruining my shots

kdog

Great shots, Mathew and Jason.

I was in Yosemite for the past couple of days to try my luck and didn't come back empty handed. Here are two meteors which occurred about a minute apart around 11:15PM last night that were almost identical. Very unusual, and they were my two best captures of the trip. These are the entire frames, uncropped.





That's half-dome about 1/3rd of the way across the bottom from the left. If you look carefully, you can see the light of some climbers bivouacked for the night.

Dreadnote

kdog wrote: »

Great shots, Mathew and Jason.

I was in Yosemite for the past couple of days to try my luck and didn't come back empty handed. Here are two meteors which occurred about a minute apart around 11:15PM last night that were almost identical. Very unusual, and they were my two best captures of the trip. These are the entire frames, uncropped.

That's half-dome about 1/3rd of the way across the bottom from the left. If you look carefully, you can see the light of some climbers bivouacked for the night.

Those are great! That second one looks like it must have filled the entire sky.

kdog

Thanks! I made a little timelapse. This was shot at Glacier Point in Yosemite between 10PM on and 2:30AM, on Sunday night/Monday AM. I recommend watching it directly on youtube in 720HD and full-screen to see the meteors the best. The big red streaks through the sky starting just over the horizon are airplanes. There are tons of meteors but they're fainter and very brief so you have to watch carefully for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLj-Mg0j0Do

Neozyn

Very nice shots, hope to see the finale version. Thanks for sharing

Canon 5D MKII - HDR
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JC

Awesome shots Kdog.
One thing I was struck with, with mine, was the green to red pattern . I caught an awesome fireball once, by accident, and it was completely green. The green to red surprised me a bit.

Nice Matt- I'd have thought it would be kind of smoky out there.


I was thwarted in my attempts to get far out of town for this, I call this San Gabriel Gothic- it's shot from the 2009 Station Fire burn zone.



Not the most artistic, but what's gratifying about this, is that it's with my m43 camera!

Stuck between two huge light sources, even after the moon set, I had to with 20 second exposures, and then raise the dark point to get rid of the sky glow. I think the skyglow works in Matt's images, but I try to reduce the urban glow in mine, in general.

Meteors gleaned from 1130 images over about 4.5 hours. The Olympus OM-D was the first mirrorless camera that would do startrails to my specifications, but it's drawback is the rather short battery life, even with the grip.

kdog

Great shot back at you, Kolibri. I love the way the meteors radiate outward from a single point (more or less). The starkness of the scene goes well with the composition too. Well done.

JC

kdog wrote: »

Great shot back at you, Kolibri. I love the way the meteors radiate outward from a single point (more or less). The starkness of the scene goes well with the composition too. Well done.

Thanks. I think the two white ones that DON'T go out from the radiant aren't Perseids, but i left them in because I don't know what they are. They don't look like iridium flares, because I don't see the central "flare", could be polar satellites I guess- parallel tracks and all, but their timing was kind of off. Could be random non-Perseid meteors as well, but I'm leaning towards polar orbiting satellintes on ascending tracks.