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).
Milky Way at Arroyo Hondo.
The guy who organizes the Glendale Photo Group meetups asked if I’d take him to where I’d been shooting up near Santa Barbara and I agreed to meet him up there to shoot. I was shooting with the skytracker, but was having problems when I was shooting in portrait orientation. So instead of using the skytracker I decided to try shooting for stacking. This means that I’d shoot multiple shots at the normal exposure(to avoid star trails) and then stack them together. As the camera was shooting the second shot, I saw a bright meteor shoot right next to the Milky Way. The skytracker can obscure meteors, so it was a good thing that I was having issues with it.
