Comments on: Perseids over Denver, from 14,000 feet

By: Practicing Photography: Birthday Camping « Corvus tristis: Science, Craft and an Odd Bird

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:54:56 +0000

[...] Since I didn’t manage to bring you any awesome meteor pictures, please allow me to link you to this timelapse from Joshua Tree National Park, by Henry Juh Wah Lee. And hey, maybe I should have just stayed in Denver. [...]

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:36:28 +0000

“Here is the news -
Coming to you every hour upon the hour.
Here is the news -
The weather’s fine, but there may be a meteor shower.”

With apologies to Jeff Lynne and Electric Light Orchestra.

By: Musical Lottie

Musical Lottie — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:29:47 +0000

Ooooh, pretty! This year I saw ~one~ Perseid meteor as it has been cloudy for most nights – and last year it was cloudy for the Leonids and Geminids too, *grump*. Stupid inland UK weather.

Still, pictures like this almost make up for missing pretty much the whole thing!

By: kat wagner

kat wagner — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:38:02 +0000

Beat me with chains beautiful, jeez!

By: SkyGazer

SkyGazer — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:08:47 +0000

Now we are getting people scared! “See constant!!1! bombardment!!1!!”
And NASA will get it´s budget we want.

By: thomas o'brien

thomas o'brien — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:59:12 +0000

thanks everyone. its a composite of all the meteor shots i took from that location and a photo of the moonrise (that also included a meteor in it). I didn’t move the camera at all during the entire night. each exposure was 5 seconds f1.6 24mm iso 1600 with a canon 5dmark2. I will be putting it together as a time-lapse in the future.

thomas
prints are available here http://smu.gs/NpzLjp

By: Guido

Guido — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:45:42 +0000

Wow, I think what’s different with this one is the fact that a couple of meteors are coming at a weird angle, which gives the sensation of 3D. Awesome picture, it would be nice to know what equipment he uses to take this photographs.
Thanks for the pic Phil, it’s going straight to my background.

By: Dan Fischer

Dan Fischer — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:04:12 +0000

*Of*course* this is a composite image: the 2012 Perseids were pretty normal, i.e. with bright meteors many minutes apart. Since there’s neither sky rotation nor cloud movement here, all but one of the meteors had to be inserted later, perhaps all of them. Images like this should be clearly marked as “art”, not real photography.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:46:03 +0000

For those wondering about the composition, from the G+ comments on the second image, he says: “i shoot a timelapse then I bring all photos that have a meteor in them into photoshop to combine them into a single exposure. i always pick the best shot out of the images with a meteor in them to be the background”

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:24:14 +0000

I think it must be a composition as well. Otherwise the clouds would be blurred even over a few minutes, and I doubt you could see some of the stars through the clouds.