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...
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ReplyDeleteReminds me a lot of Tahoe, we get a lot of shore ice, too.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking it looked warm. The water's melted.
ReplyDeleteJeffrey Sullivan this could be Mono Lake with more snow than when we were there! Nice long curve :)
ReplyDeleteCynthia Pyun It is Mono Lake, and this was the most snow I've encountered there! Often the Sierra Nevada intercepts nearly all of the moisture of many storms, but this week was one that reportedly delivered up to 9 feet of snow on the Sierra, and there was enough power in the storm to drive a fair amount of that moisture a few extra miles out into their rain shadow.
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