Orionid Meteor Shower Last Saturday Morning (HD Timelapse Video) The Orionid Meteor Shower this year was a bit of a dud. I was shooting up at 11,000 feet in the White Mountains and ran my camera for about 4 hours, from 10:40pm Friday until 2:50am, well after the moon came up. To see how a much more active meteor shower looks, here's one of my Perseid Meteor Shower videos from the same location, displayed on the Discover Magazine blog, best viewed full screen: Perseids, Writ Large http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/25/perseids-writ-large/ I have a number of posts on my blog www.MyPhotoGuides.com * related to night shooting and timelapse videos. Here's one of the more recent ones building on those pasts posts: Create a Timelapse Video of a Meteor Shower http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/08/create-timelapse-video-of-meteor-shower.html I'm curious to see how an HD 720P video gets displayed on G+. I have a ton of timelapse footage that I haven't foun...
this is pretty cool! but, yes.. how did you do it?
ReplyDeleteI had one camera taking long star trails shots with a wide angle lens, and the fading moon left a white and then red smear. I had a second camera with a telephoto lens taking the moon shots. I deleted the moon smear and substituted some of the still shots of the eclipsing moon into places there the moon had passed while eclipsing. I wouldn't say it's 100% accurate; it was simply an attempt to illustrate in simple terms how the event progressed.
ReplyDeletethanks for the explanation, the photo rocks!
ReplyDeleteQuite fun!
ReplyDeletePretty smart way to capture two events at once!
ReplyDeleteSo those moon shots would have taken a month to shoot?
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