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Old 26-02-2015, 08:51 PM
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Alpha Centaurids @ 40,000 ft

Hi,

Valentines day (night), red eye flight back to Perth:

I had another go at night shots out the plane window... this time under no moon conditions (previous attempts were moonlit). After a bumpy first 3 hours things calmed down once we crossed the WA coastline. I fired off a 20 minute burst of 1 second exposures, shielding the camera from cabin lights under a black hood.

As luck would have it, the 'alpha centaurid' meteor shower was active and I managed to capture 4 in the 20 minute window...composited here in their correct positions.

Western Australia, ~40,000 ft, 10:50 -> 11:10 pm WST, Feb 14 2015

4 x 1 sec composite @ iso 25600, f/1.4, 35 mm


Thanks for looking
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