jcham21
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I had my two DSLR's out this morning trying to catch some Orionids. I was only able to capture two. This is a composite of the two separate images.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3499/4033172098_de2921cce8_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/4033174702_a578e23158_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2789/4033178214_5ae9d600bc_b.jpg
And now the startrails from all my exposures this morning:
Focus shifted during that last shot.
Image Details:
Tucson, Arizona
October 21, 2009
Bottom meteor: 5:18 AM PST
Top meteor: 5:30 AM PST
Canon Kit lens at 18mm f/3.5
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8
Canon XSi and XTi
30 sec. exposure
ISO 1600
JPEG
Thanks for looking!
James
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xznfgzx
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Awesome.
Those last two star trails taken into dawn? Nice blue in them.
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jcham21
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Hello xznfgzx,
Yes the last two were taken into dawn. I used this program to stack my photos to make the star trails: http://www.startrails.de/html/software.html
The frames towards the end started to turn blue and I guess the program averaged the background more into the blue.
James
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Mobius1
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Beautiful! That's a lot of photons in those star trails, and nice catch on the meteors- time well spent.
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xznfgzx
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Thanks James!
I was actually just looking for an app like this! Big help.
The first two sky pics are also stacked, right? Did you use the same software?
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Really cool stuff , I stared at the sky for a hour last night and only saw one tiny one.
Those star trails are intense.
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jcham21
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I was able to capture 5 more Orionids this morning. I think this morning was better than last. One of the meteors went right under the Orion Nebula. Here is a composite of all 7 meteors:
Larger: http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p218/jcham21/Orionids2009-large.jpg
And here is a where all 7 meteors are located within the photo:
Larger: http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p218/jcham21/locations.jpg
The composite was done in photoshop.
Thanks for looking,
James
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jcham21
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The first two sky pics are also stacked, right? Did you use the same software?
The first two pics were made from just two frames layered together in photoshop. I don't think the startrail software can stack on the stars.
James
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jcham21
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And here is a little collage of all the meteors straight from the original jpeg's:
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James
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