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Big Mackson
Sep 26, 2009
Tried to get photo of meteors but i was not lucky.
Battery died quickly in -16 celsius + wind in the dark wilderness lol (chill zone? more like freeze zone)
taken with canon eos 40d and a 20mm 3.5 lens from 1970's russia or something.

have badly compressed gif of still images




edit: .cr2 images in windows looks horrendous lol

Big Mackson fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Dec 14, 2023

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Big Mackson
Sep 26, 2009

xzzy posted:

That aurora animation is a cool plan B though.

Catching meteors is a huge pain in the rear end. I feel like you need a lens that can do 1.4 to have any success (it took me 7 years to learn this).

lowest i have is a 2 but it is 58 mm.

got this yesterday with almost 30 minutes of exposure in total (in 20 sec sequences)

i think i do a lot of things wrong since i dont know a lot of astrophotograpy. like sitting inside a car and taking photos through the windshield lol (it so cold, starfire burning upon the ice veiled throne of ultima thule)

https://i.imgur.com/Vcq0xAn.mp4

edit: found the name of the lens, it is an old mir-20.

Big Mackson fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Dec 15, 2023

Big Mackson
Sep 26, 2009

xzzy posted:

Meteors do last longer, but they move. The light from them will only hit a specific pixel on your sensor for a very short time as they streak across the scene.



ISO 800 was very low, should have had 1600 minimum. Next time i use a 18-50 2.8 sigma objective and try to get a meteor mid death fall.

Big Mackson
Sep 26, 2009
disconcerting.

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