Meteors tonight, any tips

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im not sure this is in the right section, i have had a little scan around.

im planning on going up to RAF kenley with the camera and tri pod.

can anyone give some tips on setting to try and capture some shots.

will i need a remote shutter release?
 
insane_lewis said:
im not sure this is in the right section, i have had a little scan around.

im planning on going up to RAF kenley with the camera and tri pod.

can anyone give some tips on setting to try and capture some shots.

will i need a remote shutter release?
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A trigger/release will make your life a lot easier

Basically you want to set continuous shooting mode, dial in 30 second exposures, f4-5.6 ISO800-1600 and you should be good to go...you need a decent amount of memory space left and fully charged batteries

You'll find a fully guide to star trails in my signature basically you want to shoot like your shooting a star trail :thumbs: you'll want your camera facing in a north east direction
 
And take a bloody flask of Tea, it's going to be a slightly chilly night!

Luckily I live in the Salisbury downs so I have the back garden and a clear night sky! (No light pollution is a bonus out here as long as you avoid Salisbury town etc)
 
I went out last night, found clouds :( but ran a few tests for this evening (trying for both the ISS passes at 9ish and 11ish)

Settings were ISO1600 30s at f2.8/3.5 ish. This is over exposed, deliberately so, but shouldn't blow out any stars or meteors. The idea is to move the good data up the histogram then darken it down in post to help with the noise on a long exposure (google expose to the right or ETTR). If I am not to bored once done I will fire of a handful of dark frames too.

Basically go out a bit early, setup at something like above (mine or MWHCVT) take a test, and adjust. For meteors you want the shutter open as long as you can to give you a better chance to capture one , so adjust ISO and aperture not shutter.
 
This is basically what I got last night...I'm stuck with just shooting from home at the moment :( but this was before the cloud totally ruined my night


Before the cloud web by mwhcvt, on Flickr

Settings wise:

30 Seconds
ISO2500
f/4
 
thank you i will give it a shot tonight.

i might try run into currys and pickup a remote
 
MWHCVT said:
A trigger/release will make your life a lot easier

Basically you want to set continuous shooting mode, dial in 30 second exposures, f4-5.6 ISO800-1600 and you should be good to go...you need a decent amount of memory space left and fully charged batteries

You'll find a fully guide to star trails in my signature basically you want to shoot like your shooting a star trail :thumbs: you'll want your camera facing in a north east direction
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i might be being a bit thick here. but continuous shooting mode, dose that mean it takes continuous pictures one after the other each for a set time?
 
insane_lewis said:
i might be being a bit thick here. but continuous shooting mode, dose that mean it takes continuous pictures one after the other each for a set time?
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That's exactly it, your camera can be set to single shot or continuous shooting where it keeps taking photos till you tell it to stop by unlocking the trigger
 
brill thanks,
 
MWHCVT said:
This is basically what I got last night...I'm stuck with just shooting from home at the moment :( but this was before the cloud totally ruined my night
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Did better than I did. I had 1 star (or possibly Venus I suppose) and some perfectly exposed cloud :(
 
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