Thank you so much for sharing this tutorial Jeroen. I use exactly the same processes for my meteor editing but it's always good to see someone else's workflow. Thanks again and good luck with the Perseids.
Thank you for sharing. I used your methodology on my shoot from last night. Your teaching made the process of processing and particularly blending the meteors into one image very easy indeed.
Brilliant tips there, I create my meteor shower shots so much more complicated than that so for sure using some of your techniques as they'll save a lot of time! Brilliant video and nice and easy to watch without getting confused, saved on a playlist for when i need to do a meteor shower image!
That's great to hear Andrew! Hope it helps. And always keep in mind, what someone else tells you is never the only nor always the best way to do it 😅. This is just what I do haha. I am curious though how you would go about shooting meteors!
Helpful video thank you! I’ve either not felt like going out for meteor photos or had bad conditions like clouded over. It appears I’m gunna get lucky this weekend as I’ll be backpacking during peak time. So now I feel confident that I’ll come back with some really cool images as long as I shoot for a few hours near peak time and the right camera settings. Thank you
Just wanted to pass on my appreciation for this content Jeroen. I used the information to successfully shoot and edit the geminids over the weekend (stay tuned for an upcoming video 😊). I used your tracker method with great results
That is so good to hear Greg! Also glad that you got clear skies down there. We traveled all the way to the UK (about 10 hrs) for one all nighter but got clouded out pretty bad haha.
@@StarScaperPhoto Oh no - that's a huge trip. I only had to travel 2.5 hrs to get to my location but still vascillated whether or not to go as I had conflicting cloud reports. Fortunately I did go and had clear skies until 4am
@@GrowPhotography that sounds brilliant! And for us, ah well, we still had some good fun and all shared the idea of better to have failed than to not have tried at all.
Some great tips in there, Jeroen - nice one. 👍 I’m hoping our skies start to clear a bit for the peak, and then it’ll be some local foregrounds (maybe our awesome local windmill) and a timelapse. Don’t forget the Quadrantids in early Jan as well - often some fantastically bright meteors from that one (but it’s COLD! 🥶)
Nice informative video, Jeroen! Great tip to take short exposures with the camera on the star tracker to make it easier to blend the meteors in the exact position 👌🏻
Thanks for the very informative video 👌 I only did deepsky astrophotography to this day but planned to go in the Alps for the Perseids. So this was very helpful. Cheers from Switzerland 😊
Thanks for the video man. I always got some meteors/satellites in my shots but they would get stacked out. Didnt knew how to blend it in properly. Now i know.
Hi Bill. The size depends on the size of the meteor as you said. Furthermore I tend to use a soft brush with a wide feather. Please let me know if I can help further with specific details!
*small correction on the moon phase during the Perseids this year: there will rise a 10% moon around 02:20 AM Aug 13 in the NE (52 degrees North). I don't expect it to hinder that much though.
Great video and very timely. New subscriber. I am excited to try my luck capturing the Perseids. You answered most of my questions except for how to focus. Do we set to manual focus and adjust to infinite or is there a better way? Thanks for all of your great advice.
Good luck! I'd suggest focussing manually on a bright star in live view. Try to get the star as small in your frame as possible. Alternatively you could try focussing on a distant light source.
Super! Ik hoopte dat je dit nog zou doen. Heel fijn. 🎉 Het ziet er goed uit volgende week! Helder weer opkomst. Ik denk iets met de paarse heide en of Drenthe sterrenwacht
Hopelijk blijft de voorspelling zo inderdaad! En mooi plan. Heide had ik zelf nog nieteens aan gedacht! Icm sterrenwacht helemaal super. Succes en veel plezier alvast!
Great vid! Thank you for the short and concise tips… perfect for a novice astrophotographer like myself. I’m a bit confused about your exposure times. I may have missed a beat when you were explaining the differences btwn your “nice and simple” and “maximum results” methods. Using a star tracker you said you’re 1-2 min exposures at F4 and ISO 800. Then you are advocating for shorter exposures at higher ISO to get brighter, longer meteors. Was that comment in reference back to your “nice and simple” method vs using a star tracker? I do not have a star tracker at this time so will be shooting the Perseids peak tonight without. Do you have a lesson or tutorial posted that shows how you adjust the angle of the meteors in post processing?
Glad to help! In the tracked method I make a base shot for the sky tracked with longer exposure and afterwards let my tracker run with shorter exposures for the meteors. Advantage is that you shoot the same part of the sky the whole evening and don't have to adjust tje angles yourself afterwards. If you don't have a tracker I'd advice just manually adjusting your angle every now and then and make tje alignmeny manually in Photoshop by turning and moving the frame.over your base shot untill it aligns well enough. Good luck and happy hunting!
Good video and some good tips here. Ideally you need to rotate the meteors so that they are referenced against the same stars they appeared by at time of capture. It looks like plenty aren't coming from the radiant now. E.g. the star background changes over 2-3 hours of shooting.
I agree! That's why I advice to ideally use a tracker, so that your frame remains the same the entire night. Otherwise you could manually change your frame every now and again while shooting and doing the alignment yourself or with the help of the staralignment module in PixInsight for example.
Very good tutorial Jeroen! What interval between each photo do you allow for camera processing? 1 second or more? I am worried camera sensor will overheat if “continuous” shooting is chosen. Thank you.
Hi, thanks for sharing your process and thoughts. Regarding the edit process, when you pushed your meteors to become a bit brighter, why not select and mask them but using a different approach. Add an adjustment layer, e.g. contrast, levels or curve to push the highlights to individual layers, or even group all layers with masks and apply that. It might be quicker, easier and non destructive.
Thanks for your comment! In my edits from last week I actually tried what you suggested. This works pretty well, although it only makes them brighter, not 'broader' (spreading more pixels) so I ended up doing a bit of a combo. Anyways, my way is not the only one and probably not necessarily the best way also 😅.
Great work!! I think I'll go for a Polaris in the frame star trail (standard method) with Perseus still in the frame. That way I have a video, meteor shot and startrail. While one camera is running all the time facing north I think I'll shoot a highly detailed milky way core Mosaik with my 85mm stacked an tracked 3*3 I guess with the Benro Polaris and hope to catch some meteors as well. There will be lots of rocks there, Jeroen. You can still join me!
That's great to hear! I should start with what you have, or just small. Check out if it's something for you or not. You can come a long way with a simple DSLR or Mirrorless camera and a relatively fast wide angle lens + tripod. Also know that post processing is a large part of the result of a lot of astrophotography you see online. I have some tutorials which you might think are interesting if you're starting out: Gear: ua-cam.com/video/NFim8Gc_LfY/v-deo.html Planning: ua-cam.com/video/rMFkWvT3y1s/v-deo.html Techniques: ua-cam.com/video/Rxnkgolssps/v-deo.html Post processing: ua-cam.com/video/9JmZwk7BqgE/v-deo.html (although you could start out much easier by just using lightroom or a free software variant like Siril for example)
I have no experience myself with photographing meteors through a telescope and cooled camera. I guess it could theoretically work but you'll have to be super lucky that one will strike exactly through that small patch of sky which you are shooting with the 200. You might want to check this with some more deep sky oriented UA-camrs like Trevor from AstroBackyard for example.
@@StarScaperPhoto Majority of people think the same way like you. Moreover, composition of final photos ain’t probably be as impressive as yours. Oh well, perhaps I need to borrow a camera from someone for this occasion. By the way, are you really following advises by Backyard-Trevor?
It depends a bit on your sky brightness and focal length. I'd say start somewhere around iso 1600-3200 with a shutter speed of about 15-20 seconds and take it from there. Try to experiment and see what works best with your location and equipment. Clear skies!
Tx for video. Fairly clear. But what isn't clear is how to make the meteors appear to emanate from the radiant if shot on a fixed tripod. In that case, the radiant keeps moving, so the meteors will not appear to be coming from a fixed location... I've used 12mm lens on ASPS-C sized sensor, and I have over 60 frames with one or more meteors. Obviously, they're "all over the place". And I'd rather not relocate them all... Any suggestion on how to combine them and make them appear from a radiant that is present in at least one of the frames?
Hi! Yeah, you would have to align tue stars from shot to shot to match up. Without using a tracker you could adjust your ballhead position every now and then to more or less keep your intended sky area in the frame.
@@StarScaperPhoto And do you know a method to do this after the frames were shot? These are 60 frames with meteors selected out of over 2,000 (I used 8 second exposures) - cannot reshoot them, some great meteors. But the composition would benefit from emanating from radiant...
@@TalGivoly you can do it manually in photoshop by twisting and turning while the layer above is on 50% ish opacity, which cost a bit of time or do it automatically with the etar alignment process in pixinsight if you have that.
I'm headed to Staniel Cay in the Bahamas and hope to get some good data on Aug 12 & 13 . I've never used LR but I do have PS. I mainly use PI which be of little value with meteor images. Love you channel. Tim
Thanks Tim! And have a good one in Bahamas. Sounds like good fun. PS can basically do what LR does and much more. PI is brilliant for deep sky. Not used it that much for landscape stuff yet though.
Great video thanks Jeroen. Very helpful. With the tracked method why do the meteors not look as good with a longer exposure? I would have thought that it wouldnt make much difference as long as the meteor goes through when the shutter is open. I'd also expect that with shorter exposures you're more likely to miss some meteors in between shots.
Thank you! I would expect that with a shorter exposure time and higher ISO the fraction of a second a meteor is in the shot the sensor would collect a bit more light. I've not put this to a scientific test or something, but I have noticed meteors showing up less bright in my longer tracked exposures in the past. But please do let me know if you find other results! Always learning! :D.
Nice tut. Some improvements would be not editing the shots before blending that would avoid the problem matiching the brightness around the meteors. Second, a Star appears at the first layer blending since the basic sky was taken before tracking. So, I would prefere to blend all the tracked ones aligned with the first tracked as base layer. After that the one used as base could be done just replacing the sky. It also eliminates the necessity of shorter duration since no steady base sky would be presented you could shot the whole night.
So looking forward! Tried my luck yesterday already. Saw about 10 and had about 2 decent ones in frame. What about video? You mean how to film them? Not sure, not much experience. I only tried last year with the Geminids and just adjusted my settings so that it let as much light in as possible (low f number, high iso).
@@StarScaperPhoto I have a goproh11 and a DJI OA3 and have been shooting in tandem night time-lapse from 2100~0600 pointing in the NE sky with keeping Polaris in the frame. Last night I got 10 with a few sky grazers, so it came out pretty good. Hoping for increases each night for Perseids. I don't see the ability to shoot intervalometer settings for still images on either of these units?
At 5:37 am August 13th ‘23 I was loading up my gear, after the moon rose, and I saw a meteor shoot in front of the crescent moon. I wish I had got that shot
@@StarScaperPhoto just rolled in from another hunt. The moon looked rally cool coming up. Lots of great meteors. But only got a few still shots, out of hours of trying. Are there twin satellites running parallel out there, but staggered? //one line was ahead of the other by half a “car length”.
If you'd use the 500 rule you wouldn't see too much trailing. It's better to set your shutter speed a bit shorter though since the 500 rule doesn't work great anymore with modern camera's. Best to do some test shots, zoom in and adjust accordingly.
Fuji 1.4 16mm. Hoping I can capture something. Unfortunately I can’t get to far from light pollution but I am in the desert so I should be able to get something
Warning for Texans astrophotographers. August is thick with Rattlesnakes at night. I’ve already came close to 2 fat rattlesnakes. One has a rattle, but it sounded like wind, or waves. Texas rattlesnakes are losing their rattles. Because the rattles attract wild hogs. The wild hogs kill them, so the snakes are adapting to be more stealthy. I only set up my tripod on pavement, like a road where I at least have a better chance of seeing them, or avoid stepping on one.
I've seen some awesome meteors already this week. My widest angle lens is 18mm but it only goes down to F/3.5. I'm in a Bortle 5 area hopefully it'll work tonight.
I’m here in the Texas Hill Country. I’m about to head out tonight. Clear skies here so far. I noticed last night they were heading towards me from the north.
@@aqua3890 I let my camera run on a star tracker on interval shooting for a couple of hours. Later I looked through hundreds of shots and used the ones with meteors.
Bedankt
Thanks a lot Frank! Way too kind! :D
You're the first that I have actually enjoyed watching - you get straight to the point and explain what is necessary and wanted. Thank you!
Thanks! Super nice to hear.
Thank you very much
My pleasure!
Thank you so much for sharing this tutorial Jeroen. I use exactly the same processes for my meteor editing but it's always good to see someone else's workflow. Thanks again and good luck with the Perseids.
Thanks Tim! Also good luck to you!
Thank you for sharing. I used your methodology on my shoot from last night. Your teaching made the process of processing and particularly blending the meteors into one image very easy indeed.
That is great to hear! How many did you catch?
Brilliant tips there, I create my meteor shower shots so much more complicated than that so for sure using some of your techniques as they'll save a lot of time! Brilliant video and nice and easy to watch without getting confused, saved on a playlist for when i need to do a meteor shower image!
That's great to hear Andrew! Hope it helps. And always keep in mind, what someone else tells you is never the only nor always the best way to do it 😅. This is just what I do haha. I am curious though how you would go about shooting meteors!
Super tutorial ! Hartelijk bedankt hiervoor.
Very good tutorial, so instructive! Many thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Prima Tutorial! Kijk er al echt weer naar uit om op pad te gaan! Nu hopen op een heldere nacht…
Dankjewel Marcel! Fingers crossed 🤞.
Thanks a lot Jeroen...just in time for the perseides...! :)
You're welcome! And what a coincidence isn't it? 😁
Helpful video thank you! I’ve either not felt like going out for meteor photos or had bad conditions like clouded over.
It appears I’m gunna get lucky this weekend as I’ll be backpacking during peak time. So now I feel confident that I’ll come back with some really cool images as long as I shoot for a few hours near peak time and the right camera settings. Thank you
Good luck!
Thank You for your willingness to share.. I'm feeling much better about heading out tonight and tomorrow night.
My pleasure! Good luck and happy hunting!
Just wanted to pass on my appreciation for this content Jeroen. I used the information to successfully shoot and edit the geminids over the weekend (stay tuned for an upcoming video 😊). I used your tracker method with great results
That is so good to hear Greg! Also glad that you got clear skies down there. We traveled all the way to the UK (about 10 hrs) for one all nighter but got clouded out pretty bad haha.
@@StarScaperPhoto Oh no - that's a huge trip. I only had to travel 2.5 hrs to get to my location but still vascillated whether or not to go as I had conflicting cloud reports. Fortunately I did go and had clear skies until 4am
@@GrowPhotography that sounds brilliant! And for us, ah well, we still had some good fun and all shared the idea of better to have failed than to not have tried at all.
Fantastic video! Thank you
Thank you!
underrated video! thanks for posting ❤
That's super kind to say, thanks! And glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you , very helpful!
Some great tips in there, Jeroen - nice one. 👍 I’m hoping our skies start to clear a bit for the peak, and then it’ll be some local foregrounds (maybe our awesome local windmill) and a timelapse. Don’t forget the Quadrantids in early Jan as well - often some fantastically bright meteors from that one (but it’s COLD! 🥶)
Hoping the clouds clear right there with you! A local plan always sounds like a relaxt evening. You have plans to film a vlog also?
@@StarScaperPhoto yes hopefully a vlog too, although we’re heading to Spain at the weekend so it will all depend how organised I am! 🤣
@@nightscapejournals both sound like good options though ;-).
Nice informative video, Jeroen! Great tip to take short exposures with the camera on the star tracker to make it easier to blend the meteors in the exact position 👌🏻
Glad I could help Mark! Good luck and clear skies!
very very useful video for us and thanks for sharing PS and LR tutorial.....
That's great to hear! Thanks for letting me know!
Thanks! I did it with the Perseids 2024 😉
Awesome! Hope you caught a lot!
Very nice video! Will be my first time shooting meteor shower, hopefully will have nice results 🤗
Good luck and have fun!
Thanks for the very informative video 👌 I only did deepsky astrophotography to this day but planned to go in the Alps for the Perseids. So this was very helpful.
Cheers from Switzerland 😊
Happy it helped you! Good luck an have fun in the Alps. Super jaleous of such scenery! 🙂
Thanks for the video man. I always got some meteors/satellites in my shots but they would get stacked out. Didnt knew how to blend it in properly.
Now i know.
Glad I could be of help!
@@StarScaperPhoto Came back again after Geminids to remember this technique.
Great tips, thanks!
My pleasure! Hope it helps 👍.
Your tutorial is amazing! Thank you! 🙏
Thanks Davide!
What are your brush settings when selecting the meteor trail? 30 pixels, but what are the feather or blur/hard soft brush??
Hi Bill. The size depends on the size of the meteor as you said. Furthermore I tend to use a soft brush with a wide feather. Please let me know if I can help further with specific details!
Really well presented. Thanks.
Thank you! Really nice to hear!
*small correction on the moon phase during the Perseids this year: there will rise a 10% moon around 02:20 AM Aug 13 in the NE (52 degrees North). I don't expect it to hinder that much though.
Great video and very timely. New subscriber. I am excited to try my luck capturing the Perseids. You answered most of my questions except for how to focus. Do we set to manual focus and adjust to infinite or is there a better way? Thanks for all of your great advice.
Good luck! I'd suggest focussing manually on a bright star in live view. Try to get the star as small in your frame as possible. Alternatively you could try focussing on a distant light source.
Super! Ik hoopte dat je dit nog zou doen. Heel fijn. 🎉 Het ziet er goed uit volgende week! Helder weer opkomst. Ik denk iets met de paarse heide en of Drenthe sterrenwacht
Hopelijk blijft de voorspelling zo inderdaad! En mooi plan. Heide had ik zelf nog nieteens aan gedacht! Icm sterrenwacht helemaal super. Succes en veel plezier alvast!
Great vid! Thank you for the short and concise tips… perfect for a novice astrophotographer like myself.
I’m a bit confused about your exposure times. I may have missed a beat when you were explaining the differences btwn your “nice and simple” and “maximum results” methods. Using a star tracker you said you’re 1-2 min exposures at F4 and ISO 800. Then you are advocating for shorter exposures at higher ISO to get brighter, longer meteors. Was that comment in reference back to your “nice and simple” method vs using a star tracker?
I do not have a star tracker at this time so will be shooting the Perseids peak tonight without. Do you have a lesson or tutorial posted that shows how you adjust the angle of the meteors in post processing?
Glad to help! In the tracked method I make a base shot for the sky tracked with longer exposure and afterwards let my tracker run with shorter exposures for the meteors. Advantage is that you shoot the same part of the sky the whole evening and don't have to adjust tje angles yourself afterwards.
If you don't have a tracker I'd advice just manually adjusting your angle every now and then and make tje alignmeny manually in Photoshop by turning and moving the frame.over your base shot untill it aligns well enough.
Good luck and happy hunting!
AWESOME..Alyn Wallace recommended your channel.. great info! New sub🎉🎉🎉
Thank you! And glad the video could be of help to you!
Great video
Great job with this video. The others I watched weren't as clear and concise. Very helpful for my first time making meteor shower composite.
Glad it helped!
Good video and some good tips here. Ideally you need to rotate the meteors so that they are referenced against the same stars they appeared by at time of capture. It looks like plenty aren't coming from the radiant now. E.g. the star background changes over 2-3 hours of shooting.
I agree! That's why I advice to ideally use a tracker, so that your frame remains the same the entire night. Otherwise you could manually change your frame every now and again while shooting and doing the alignment yourself or with the help of the staralignment module in PixInsight for example.
Very good tutorial Jeroen! What interval between each photo do you allow for camera processing? 1 second or more? I am worried camera sensor will overheat if “continuous” shooting is chosen. Thank you.
My old Canon 6D needs 5 seconds.
Hi, thanks for sharing your process and thoughts. Regarding the edit process, when you pushed your meteors to become a bit brighter, why not select and mask them but using a different approach. Add an adjustment layer, e.g. contrast, levels or curve to push the highlights to individual layers, or even group all layers with masks and apply that. It might be quicker, easier and non destructive.
Thanks for your comment! In my edits from last week I actually tried what you suggested. This works pretty well, although it only makes them brighter, not 'broader' (spreading more pixels) so I ended up doing a bit of a combo. Anyways, my way is not the only one and probably not necessarily the best way also 😅.
Great work!! I think I'll go for a Polaris in the frame star trail (standard method) with Perseus still in the frame. That way I have a video, meteor shot and startrail. While one camera is running all the time facing north I think I'll shoot a highly detailed milky way core Mosaik with my 85mm stacked an tracked 3*3 I guess with the Benro Polaris and hope to catch some meteors as well. There will be lots of rocks there, Jeroen. You can still join me!
Whoah, that sounds like a solid and efficient plan dude 😎. You know I wish I could join 😅.
Nice tutorial! I'm looking into Astrophotography more and more thanks to you! Do you know a good place to start?
That's great to hear! I should start with what you have, or just small. Check out if it's something for you or not. You can come a long way with a simple DSLR or Mirrorless camera and a relatively fast wide angle lens + tripod. Also know that post processing is a large part of the result of a lot of astrophotography you see online.
I have some tutorials which you might think are interesting if you're starting out:
Gear: ua-cam.com/video/NFim8Gc_LfY/v-deo.html
Planning: ua-cam.com/video/rMFkWvT3y1s/v-deo.html
Techniques: ua-cam.com/video/Rxnkgolssps/v-deo.html
Post processing: ua-cam.com/video/9JmZwk7BqgE/v-deo.html (although you could start out much easier by just using lightroom or a free software variant like Siril for example)
Great video. What about 200mm small scope with cooling astro camera? Will it be OK? I don’t want to get separate camera only for this.
I have no experience myself with photographing meteors through a telescope and cooled camera. I guess it could theoretically work but you'll have to be super lucky that one will strike exactly through that small patch of sky which you are shooting with the 200. You might want to check this with some more deep sky oriented UA-camrs like Trevor from AstroBackyard for example.
@@StarScaperPhoto Majority of people think the same way like you. Moreover, composition of final photos ain’t probably be as impressive as yours. Oh well, perhaps I need to borrow a camera from someone for this occasion.
By the way, are you really following advises by Backyard-Trevor?
@@anata5127 I am not following advises for deep sky from anyone at the moment because I am focussing on nightscapes at the moment :-).
@@StarScaperPhoto Great! This is very much specific area of astrophotography. Different technique, different equipment, etc.
Excellent video, just subscribed to your channel
Thank you! And welcome to the channel 👍
Hi Jeroen, how long are your shorter exposures ? Could tell me what ISO you have used ?
It depends a bit on your sky brightness and focal length. I'd say start somewhere around iso 1600-3200 with a shutter speed of about 15-20 seconds and take it from there. Try to experiment and see what works best with your location and equipment. Clear skies!
Alternatives for lightroom and photoshop?
I use Gimp. It's free and very powerful.
@@MERLE1593I second this.
Yeah, I've heard Gimp is good as a free alternative.
thanks! that's a very helpul video ;)
+1 btw
Tx for video. Fairly clear. But what isn't clear is how to make the meteors appear to emanate from the radiant if shot on a fixed tripod. In that case, the radiant keeps moving, so the meteors will not appear to be coming from a fixed location... I've used 12mm lens on ASPS-C sized sensor, and I have over 60 frames with one or more meteors. Obviously, they're "all over the place". And I'd rather not relocate them all... Any suggestion on how to combine them and make them appear from a radiant that is present in at least one of the frames?
Hi! Yeah, you would have to align tue stars from shot to shot to match up. Without using a tracker you could adjust your ballhead position every now and then to more or less keep your intended sky area in the frame.
@@StarScaperPhoto And do you know a method to do this after the frames were shot? These are 60 frames with meteors selected out of over 2,000 (I used 8 second exposures) - cannot reshoot them, some great meteors. But the composition would benefit from emanating from radiant...
@@TalGivoly you can do it manually in photoshop by twisting and turning while the layer above is on 50% ish opacity, which cost a bit of time or do it automatically with the etar alignment process in pixinsight if you have that.
Nice, thank you sir!
My pleasure.
You got some tips for non cloudy locations for next year?
I hear the UK is awesome 🤣
I'm headed to Staniel Cay in the Bahamas and hope to get some good data on Aug 12 & 13 . I've never used LR but I do have PS. I mainly use PI which be of little value with meteor images. Love you channel. Tim
Thanks Tim! And have a good one in Bahamas. Sounds like good fun. PS can basically do what LR does and much more. PI is brilliant for deep sky. Not used it that much for landscape stuff yet though.
Thank you .
thank you!
My pleasure!
Great video thanks Jeroen. Very helpful. With the tracked method why do the meteors not look as good with a longer exposure? I would have thought that it wouldnt make much difference as long as the meteor goes through when the shutter is open. I'd also expect that with shorter exposures you're more likely to miss some meteors in between shots.
Thank you! I would expect that with a shorter exposure time and higher ISO the fraction of a second a meteor is in the shot the sensor would collect a bit more light. I've not put this to a scientific test or something, but I have noticed meteors showing up less bright in my longer tracked exposures in the past. But please do let me know if you find other results! Always learning! :D.
Nice tut. Some improvements would be not editing the shots before blending that would avoid the problem matiching the brightness around the meteors. Second, a Star appears at the first layer blending since the basic sky was taken before tracking. So, I would prefere to blend all the tracked ones aligned with the first tracked as base layer. After that the one used as base could be done just replacing the sky. It also eliminates the necessity of shorter duration since no steady base sky would be presented you could shot the whole night.
Excellent suggestions, thank you!
Very useful as we go the Perseids in a waning 8% moon this year, so should be great.
How about video?
So looking forward! Tried my luck yesterday already. Saw about 10 and had about 2 decent ones in frame. What about video? You mean how to film them? Not sure, not much experience. I only tried last year with the Geminids and just adjusted my settings so that it let as much light in as possible (low f number, high iso).
@@StarScaperPhoto I have a goproh11 and a DJI OA3 and have been shooting in tandem night time-lapse from 2100~0600 pointing in the NE sky with keeping Polaris in the frame. Last night I got 10 with a few sky grazers, so it came out pretty good. Hoping for increases each night for Perseids. I don't see the ability to shoot intervalometer settings for still images on either of these units?
@@graphguy that sounds like dedication! Nice. I am afraid I cannot advise you on the gopro or dji since I have not used those. Sorry man!
@@StarScaperPhoto no worries, thanks for the channel!
@@graphguy my pleasure 👍
Thankyou my camera shooting perseid meteor ☄️ outside the house. And im on my bed. 😂
Great tutorial again. But where and when you going shooting😄
Haha, no definite plans yet here. Afraid I can't shoot during the peak itself so I'll have to try to fit in something a day before or after ;-).
At 5:37 am August 13th ‘23 I was loading up my gear, after the moon rose, and I saw a meteor shoot in front of the crescent moon. I wish I had got that shot
You can't catch 'em all but I can imagine how you felt 😅
@@StarScaperPhoto just rolled in from another hunt. The moon looked rally cool coming up. Lots of great meteors. But only got a few still shots, out of hours of trying. Are there twin satellites running parallel out there, but staggered? //one line was ahead of the other by half a “car length”.
@@8arrows sounds like Starlink satellites.
If we use 500 rule to set SS, all the stars would start trailing. Will it be like star trail rather than Meteor shower shooting?
If you'd use the 500 rule you wouldn't see too much trailing. It's better to set your shutter speed a bit shorter though since the 500 rule doesn't work great anymore with modern camera's. Best to do some test shots, zoom in and adjust accordingly.
Thanks
Welcome
Fuji 1.4 16mm. Hoping I can capture something. Unfortunately I can’t get to far from light pollution but I am in the desert so I should be able to get something
Sounds good! Hopefully you have clear skies.
Sounds cool
Let us hear you meteor plan!
Nou, met jou ergens naar een donker plekje😃
@@KoenvanBarneveld klinkt spannend Koen 😄
Bringing a folding chair next time lol
Warning for Texans astrophotographers. August is thick with Rattlesnakes at night. I’ve already came close to 2 fat rattlesnakes. One has a rattle, but it sounded like wind, or waves. Texas rattlesnakes are losing their rattles. Because the rattles attract wild hogs. The wild hogs kill them, so the snakes are adapting to be more stealthy. I only set up my tripod on pavement, like a road where I at least have a better chance of seeing them, or avoid stepping on one.
@@8arrows that sounds like quite the adventure 😲
I've seen some awesome meteors already this week. My widest angle lens is 18mm but it only goes down to F/3.5. I'm in a Bortle 5 area hopefully it'll work tonight.
Great! You will be fine with that lens 👌
@@StarScaperPhoto Awesome! Thanks for the video.
I’m here in the Texas Hill Country. I’m about to head out tonight. Clear skies here so far. I noticed last night they were heading towards me from the north.
Yeah but how did you catch the 11 meteors? Just took a pic when you saw one?
@@aqua3890 I let my camera run on a star tracker on interval shooting for a couple of hours. Later I looked through hundreds of shots and used the ones with meteors.
@@StarScaperPhoto Thanks!! That cleared up
a jew heater??? what did you say
Haha dew
Really cool!
Fingers crossed for not raining on perseids… 🫣
That would be typical though, wouldn't it 😅.