08-13-2016, 03:58 PM
I spent a two and a half hours trying to catch a Perseid meteor, the background town lights didn't help, but I got a couple of very faint ones nothing worth posting though, but I managed to get a decent "moonset" shot.
The Pentax K3 with the clip on astro-tracer is a good bit of kit which enables shots up to 5 minutes, but I've found anything over a 60-90 seconds starts to produce trails as well as anything land based blurring to much.
Also a meteor may last half a second and isn't often that bright in the resulting image compared with a star that has an exposure of 90 seconds can look pretty feeble.I had the Sigma 10-20mm F4/5.6 set at 10mm F4, not really a suitable lens, pretty soft at that setting.
15 seconds is the max for the D750, but it's noise is way lower and the Samyang produced the best results I've had by far, very good for astro. It should be coupled with a equatorial mount to get exposures suitable for meteor shooting. taking a 15 sec. exposure over and over again just to chance a shooting star is a wearing process for the photog and the camera!
Iill try again some where further from the damned town lights!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/124690178@N08/
The Pentax K3 with the clip on astro-tracer is a good bit of kit which enables shots up to 5 minutes, but I've found anything over a 60-90 seconds starts to produce trails as well as anything land based blurring to much.
Also a meteor may last half a second and isn't often that bright in the resulting image compared with a star that has an exposure of 90 seconds can look pretty feeble.I had the Sigma 10-20mm F4/5.6 set at 10mm F4, not really a suitable lens, pretty soft at that setting.
15 seconds is the max for the D750, but it's noise is way lower and the Samyang produced the best results I've had by far, very good for astro. It should be coupled with a equatorial mount to get exposures suitable for meteor shooting. taking a 15 sec. exposure over and over again just to chance a shooting star is a wearing process for the photog and the camera!
Iill try again some where further from the damned town lights!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/124690178@N08/