Perseid Meteor Shower (a time-lapse movie)

Perseid meteors taken the nights of August 12 & 13 from my backyard in Gold Canyon, Arizona. Among the constant passing aircraft (dotted fast moving streaks) you will see flashes of Perseid meteors.

Taken with a Canon EOS Rebel 550D (T2i) camera. Each frame in the movie is actually a 25-second long time-exposure at 3200 ISO.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Perseid Meteor Shower
• perseids
• perseid
• meteor
• meteors
• astronomy
• arizona

[n8imo]

Music in this video was made by me.

[xVeraful]

How did you take pictures with 25-second exposure without having those star trails?

[n8imo]

Stars don't trail much at on 25 seconds, as long as you are zoomed out.

[Yodasstuff]

Hi, you told us the camera and exposure but how did you make a video from that? Did you string the pictures together with some kind of software or does the camera have feature to do this?

Thanks.

[n8imo]

I used a free program called VideoMach to string together the individual framed from the camera into the movie.

[PracticalGuitar]

What was your iso and exposure and how often between pics and how many shots as i want to try this but don't want to spend hours upon hours to result in over exposed pictures etc. Much appreciated if you reply.

[n8imo]

Each exposure was about 25 seconds, at ISO 1600.

[maxkosmo17]

How long did you photograph for?

[fearsfaith]

Try watching this in 240p lol

[n8imo]

Music in this video was made by me.

[myimpureheart]

what is the song playing? I love it!

[MarthaStout0202]

It's too bad that there are more aircraft than meteors.