Meteors
• PHOTO COLLECTION •
Perseids Meteor Shower Composite #1 | August 13, 2023
A composite image capturing about 3 hours of the meteor shower on the morning of August 13, 2023 from Terlingua, TX.
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Composite image from 60 frames
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop
Camera: Sony a7 III
Lens: Zeiss Batis E-mount 18mm
ƒ/2.8, 15s, ISO3200
Perseids Meteor Shower Composite #2 | August 13, 2023
A composite image capturing about 3 hours of the meteor shower on the morning of August 13, 2023 from Terlingua, TX.
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Composite image from 120 frames
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop
Camera: full-spectrum modified Sony a7
Lens: Rokinon 12mm f2.8 Ultra Wide Fisheye for Sony E-mount
ƒ/2.8, 15s, ISO3200
Exploding Meteor | December 14, 2020
This was a first for me! I was camping at Enchanted Rock SNA to observe the 2020 Geminids Meteor Shower and got a lucky capture of an exploding meteor. This animated gif was created with 18 30-second exposures, so the elapsed time was about 9 minutes.
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Animated gif created from 18 frames
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and Google Photos
Camera: Sony a7
Lens: Zeiss Batis E-mount 18mm
ƒ/2.8, 30s, ISO1600
Perseids Meteor Shower | August 15, 2015
One of my first meteor captures. Taken as people were leaving a star party at McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, TX, so there is a pretty bad flare from the headlights. But it was such a nice, bright green one!
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Single frame image
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop
Camera: Sony a7
Lens: Rokinon 14mm F2.8 Ultra Wide Lens for Sony E-mount
ƒ/2.8, 30s, ISO6400