September 26, 2018
Meteors
The starman has been out and about, seeking out the darkest places in Southern California. The Perseids(meteor shower) occurred in early August and peaked on August 13th. They’re caused by a cloud of dust left by comet Swift-Tuttle that the Earth passes though late July and early August each year. So what better opportunity to capture the Milky Way and a meteor in the same shot. I shot at some familiar places(Lockwood Valley and Arroyo Hondo) and a new and very dark place(Amboy Crater).
Read MoreThe starman has been out and about, seeking out the darkest places in Southern California. The Perseids(meteor shower) occurred in early August and peaked on August 13th. They’re caused by a cloud of dust left by comet Swift-Tuttle that the Earth passes though late July and early August each year. So what better opportunity to capture the Milky Way and a meteor in the same shot. I shot at some familiar places(Lockwood Valley and Arroyo Hondo) and a new and very dark place(Amboy Crater).
Star Trails over Mt. Pinos.
While I was shooting the Milky Way to the south, I set up my NX500(which is currently vacationing with my step-daughter in Australia) to capture the sky to the north with a series of 30 second exposures. Thirty seconds will produce tiny star trails and a series of these tiny stars with trails stacked together in Photoshop will produce long star trails(the pain is removing airplanes from the individual shots they show up in).
