Monday, August 13, 2018

I wasn't a slug.

The persids, according to what I had read, were supposed to be pretty good this year. Now I think that really referred to the moon being out of the way.

Anyway, usually I am a slug and don't get out during the meteor showers. This time, I was still up and wide awake, and the sky was clear, so I headed out to Shanty Hollow Lake about midnight. Actually got there at 12:30am or so.

I stayed until 3am, as from what I had read, the shower would get better the closer it got to dawn. I actually saw more in the 1 am range than I did closer to 3 am. All together I saw 6 or 7 meteors, which I don't think is a lot considering I was there two and a half hours.

I did get a few meteors on camera, small streaks, but I did get a few.  So mission accomplished I suppose.

I had two cameras going continuously, shooting a 30 second exposure, then immediately firing off again. One camera fogged up eventually, the other didn't. Go figure.

For the star trails, I ran them through photoshop to merge the photos together. White balanced on the blue side. As is not unusual, I processed them pretty heavily.

Caught Polaris on a few of these, and it was nearby on the others - nice. The bottom line is, I'm glad I did make the trip.

So, here are mostly star trails with the occasional meteor thrown in. I need a much wider lens if I hope to get some good meteor shower shots.






70min or so

Meteor up top left.



Polaris is stationary, all other stars rotate around it.
Meteor mid left going off screen.
15 min exposure (30, 30s exposures).

Meteor up top, left. 15 min exposure (30, 30s exposures).






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