With the Perseid Meteor Showers in full swing I decided to head towards eastern Oregon to find a dark sky and give it a try. I read up on how to photograph the meteor showers (there are several ways to do it) and decided to add my own tweak to it. Shoot star trails in the directions of the showers and get both. With that in mind, I did succeed by getting two meteors in this star trail photo…
(The two streaks going a different direction than the star trails are the meteors) I learned a lot for tonight’s “big show”…they happen all over the sky and the few that were spectacular were not where my camera was aimed, I think I will set one camera up for meteor showers (shorter exposure time, faster ISO) and focus more on getting the streaks with pin point stars and will set the other camera up to do star trails again with the hope of getting some meteors in the frame too. I like the focal length I used (24mm) but, think I may go wider on the star trail camera for an even bigger arc. Stay tuned tomorrow when I share my results.
Even if I don’t get THE shot, it’s quite spectacular to see these flaming meteors streaking through the sky.
Image created with Nikon D3S, AF-S 24-70mm on Lexar Digital Media
