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Geminid meteor shower

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So I was able to get out all night for the recent geminids peak and after 800 photos, I got this stacked image.

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Great shot JawZ :thumb:

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Awesome shot :)

Was hoping to get some shots here but it was raining and in the low 40's. Too cold to be outside taking pictures without a mug of coffee or a woman or a fire. Not necessarily in that order.
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LOL, the snow effect over the pic makes it look like meteors!
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cool shot. :cool:

Wish I'd known about that. Might have been able to see it down here. Clear night, no clouds, nice temp, in fact I slept with the windows open.
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Awesome photo!!! I saw something flash through the sky while coming home late the other night. I didn't even know about meteor shower.

Edit: Hope you don't mind but I'm using it as my wallpaper.
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Cool pic Uod. I've been waiting for clear skies to take a stacked pic of the milky way. Can I ask what software you're playing with for stacked pics?
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very nice jawZ
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i know nothing about photography ..but if that pic was taken by hand camera ,it was awesome shot
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Looks great, thanks for sharing. What was this shot with ?
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AWESOME!! But I had to. LoL
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Sweet photo, Evan.

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downhill wrote:Cool pic Uod. I've been waiting for clear skies to take a stacked pic of the milky way. Can I ask what software you're playing with for stacked pics?
Just Photoshop. I took the best pic that had a good shot of the milkyway and then stacked in each one. Just used layers and masking. All shots obviously on a tripod...25 second exposure if I recall with a fairly high ISO.

For the masking I do reveal all and then erase everything except the meteor. I dont have any kind of equatorial or tracking rig so I have to do it that way or else all of the others stars, etc. wouldn't line up properly.

I've since moved on from my Canon rig and now have a Fuji X system. I will never go back to a DSLR. I will stay with mirrorless and then eventually mirrorless medium format although I am eyeing medium format rangefinders on ebay and elsewhere.
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Post by Berliner89 »

Great photo!!
I also watched the meteor shower, but I was out of town and didn't have my camera with me :(
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Wow this picture looks incredible. It’s always hard to catch the beauty of the nature on camera but you really nailed it! Thanks for sharing!
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omg, it really looks like a photoshop, but its not. Do you have more photos of starts?
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