Recent moonless nights have favored long meteor-hunting sessions, and this month it coincides with the Perseids. Famous meteor showers get a lot of press and draw our attention, but meteors happen EVERY night. Mark your calendar for all moonless nights!
These are all 30-second exposures f/2.8 at ISO 6400 shot off a fixed tripod.
5-second exposures taken at 4:10AM today. Taos NM
Twenty minutes of night sky, lit from behind by the Moon.
Looking for Comet SWAN, but it was lost in the glare of sunrise. Had another camera shooting north 30 sec exposures. This is a composite of 30 frames.
10 second exposure as the moon was rising during a distant thunderstorm.
A sweet, clear, dark night…
Here is what I have been up to for the last few weeks:
MOMentum is building…
Tattoo!
Hagerty Mandolins
Hagerty Mandolins
Hagerty Mandolins
Ground squirrel taunts us
This got published in Taos News
Eskes crowd watching the fireworks
Gun buy-back in Taos
Eskes Bluegrass Jam
Hand-held, available light, good times!
This meteor flashed through around 2AM this morning. While it appears to be “in” the Milky Way, it is well to remember that the meteor is very close to Earth, actually burning up IN our atmosphere, while the Milky Way is (almost) unimaginably distant.
For extra credit: why do we see more meteors AFTER midnight, than before?
This is a composite of about fifty 30-second exposures. A departing car painted the antenna red (I used considerable Photoshop layer masking to get this final effect). Also, that’s a meteor at top right…
