Eta Aquarids composite

[Phil Hart]

there's some nasty photoshop work gone into this so i wouldn't call it science anymore, but here's a heavily processed composite of about 31 eta aquarids captured friday morning and a few more through cloud on saturday morning from heathcote (leon mow dark sky site).

Canon 5DmkII, 24mm f1.4 lens, ISO6400, rolling 4 second exposures for about six hours all up.. then maximum combine of selected JPG frames in DeepSkyStacker.

Phil

[multiweb]

That looks great. There's a real feel of depth to the whole field. Nicely done. :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Nice one Phil, not as good as last years, but that would've been tough to top :)

[Ross G]

Amazing shot Phil.

They're shooting out at you!



Thanks.

Ross.

[gregbradley]

Awesome.

I find it odd there was a meteor shower on Friday. I was out imaging Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun nights at my dark and I did not see a single meteorite. This is weird as I normally see several every night. Even weirder now I find there was a meteor shower on Friday morning.

Greg.

[Astroman]

Were these tracked exposures Phil, or off the tripod?

A brilliant composition, something I tried to do, but failed miserably. Thanks for showing...

[Hagar]

Nice image Phil, some great colour in the meteor trails.

[renormalised]

Great shot Phil. You know, our shots don't necessarily have to be about science to be good, but some of the best shots ever taken have had a lot of scientific content. In any case, they're all works of art :)

[Phil Hart]

Eta Aquarids radiant only rose about 2am so they wouldn't have been around any earlier than that, and activity was really only 'good' in the last hour or so before twilight.

[Phil Hart]

I had the camera tracking for several hours on the Vixen GP-DX mount (no guiding). Impossible to stack more than a few images if the frame is not staying constant. You need a fast lens to capture many meteors.. the 24mm is f1.4 :-)

Phil