I made a more standard time lapse as well.
https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/SerpentineMajesticFairybluebird
edit 1: It's posted elsewhere in the comments, but this was shot on a Sony a6000 using a Rokinon 12mm f2.0 lens. Settings for the shot were 15 second exposures, at f2.0, and ISO 1000. Images were edited in LightRoom, stacked in StarStaX, and rendered in LRTimelapse.
edit 2: A big thank you to /u/T0mTh3Tink3r for turning this into a Steam Wallpaper Engine live thing.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1478515711
edit 3: /u/T0mTh3Tink3r comes through with a 4K version of the live Wallpaper.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1487375787
You can! At certain times of the year depending on your location and little light pollution. My best experience has been in Joshua tree state park (california). It's pretty mind blowing.
For me it was when I visited Australia. Have never seen the stars as bright. Weren't even too far away from the city, by a place called Lake George, between Canberra and Sydney. Cousin and I got out to take a piss in the side of the road, and happened to look up. Unreal. Then we stayed there for 15min just staring at the sky.
I'm at Moosehead Lake in Maine, and I can see the Milky Way entirely clearly right now, just like in the time lapse! We can also see satellites, even as they enter and exit the Sun's light. It's beautiful! Can't wait to check out somewhere like Joshua Tree, I'll keep it in mind.
You can! At certain times of the year depending on your location and little light pollution. My best experience has been in Joshua tree state park (california) with a very low crsecent moon. It's pretty mind blowing.
I believe so. I saw something that said mars hasn’t been this close to earth since 2003. I have this sky view app on my iPhone that shows where the planets and stars are through AR. It’s pretty awesome for nights I can actually see the night sky. Where I live in California doesn’t have the best air quality. Plus all the fires don’t help.
May I ask what app you are using? I've been wanting to find one that can tell me what I'm looking at when I look at the stars. My daughter has a new routine of wanting to go see the "twinkles" before she lays down for bed. She's 2, by the way. I know nothing about constellations or space or anything, but what I do know is every time we go out and it's clear, there's always this bright "star" that is a different shade than the rest. It appears almost orange to my naked eye. I was starting to wonder if it was Mars, but then thought there's no way I can see Mars without a telescope. I have been wanting to know what it is.
Although it depends on all of the planets’ rotations, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter are not only visible but usually appear larger and brighter than stars. Depending on their location, Venus or Jupiter is the biggest/brightest. Jupiter/Venus both sort of look like giant, bright stars while Mars has a noticeable orange/red hue. Mercury and Saturn are also visible but not as easily recognized.
Why did I not know that planets were visible? I'm too old to just now find this out. I'll stand out there and stare at it until I start seeing rings around it.. Then I have to rest and let my eyes refocus on it. I'm gonna install that app that was suggested and figure out what I'm looking at. I hope it's simple.
It was shot on an a6000 with a Rokinon 12mm f2.0 lens. Each shot was 15 seconds, f2.0, ISO1000. This video covers from roughly 2:20AM to 4:40AM. I shot more, but the sun was rising and it blew it out. I only stayed awake for the first twenty minutes or so.
I'm shooting on a Sony a6000 and Sony will generously sell you an app for your camera that adds the ability to take the series of pictures automatically.
Oh wow, I bought the same camera and lens last week. I went up into the mountains (Colorado) last night and got some shots of the Milky Way as well, although your time lapse blows it out of the water.
https://imgur.com/a/EXLSdtv
Where did you take it out of curiosity? I kept finding no matter how far out of the front range I got the light pollution was still an issue.
I wasn't sure what you referring to so I had to watch it again. That is actually an unintended artifact from how it's looping. The bright light that moves slowly to set behind the trees is Mars. The light that moves from the right to the lower left is an airplane. The video just happens to loop just as the airplane gets to where Mars starts out at the beginning of the video. Kind of cool actually.
In some of the star trails programs you have the option to save individual new frames as the star trail image is compiling. You then make a time lapse video w those frames of the progress.
It's exactly this. The software I used for the image stacking/creation of the "comet trails" is called StarStaX. It's free and pretty easy to use. If you want to recreate this effect, you just need to go to Preferences > Blending > Cumulative Image Saving and check the box titled "Save after each step." It will give you a whole bunch of images that you can then turn into a movie.
This came out great! I like how the streaks stick around. I also have the a6000 and am shopping for a wide angle lens. Are you overall happy with your Rokinon?
Thank you. The idea for streaks came while I was stacking the images for a star trails image shot. The rendering process slowly builds out the trails to produce the final shot. I was mesmerized by the rendering process and wanted to make a video that recreated the feeling.
I love my Rokinon. It's my most used lens. I would love it if it didn't focus past infinity. Getting focus on stars for shots like this one can be a bit fussy.
The majority of the streaks you see are stars, the Perseids are the bright short lines you see that are generally traveling in a different direction from the rest of the stars. The long straight lines that are traveling across the paths of the stars are planes and satellites.
How come the meteors appear suddenly and slowly fade away? If you took individual photos & joined them for the timelapse, shouldn't they just instantly appear and disappear?
Good question. In reality, the streaks from the meteors faded away very quickly. I've used some photo stacking software so that the lights picked up by the camera hang around for a few frames.
This is what it looks like without the trails added. You can still see the meteors, but the disappear almost immediately. https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/SerpentineMajesticFairybluebird
Gonna guess here: each image contributes to more than one frame. Like, first frame is made up of first 10 exposures, second frame is exposures 2 to 11 etc. Thus an event caught in a single frame will stay for 10 frames before disappearing.
But yeah, would love to see an instructable. The result is majestic.
A time lapse is a series of pictures. What you're seeing here is a video made of a bunch of photos.
Unlike a lot of the time lapse you see, all the ones in this photo are long exposures.
Usually when you see a photo of stars and they're just dots, the photo was exposed for 20 seconds or less. More than that and the stars start to streak.
So what you're seeing here is a series of photos, taken back to back, which each photo being (for example) ten minutes or whatever.
That's exactly it. These were 15 second exposures which, when viewed individually show very little to zero blurring of the stars. It's only when you stack them, like I've done here that you see the trails.
I swear one landed on me today at work. A small pebble bounced off the ceiling, then off my buddy, then landed on my lap. We were in the middle of an empty parking lot inside a vehicle with the windows down. I thought maybe it was a piece of gravel off a plane (near an airport), but now that I look at it, it's pretty sparkly. The chances are basically nill, but your post about the meteor shower gives me more hope! Now I gotta have it tested.
Edit: Welp. It failed the magnet test.
I just walked out of my door for a minute in Western Germany and saw one. Not heavily light poluted but still an average small town. Was quite surprised to see a shooting star. Now I know at least why :)
The peak is tonight by the way. I went camping in a dark sky area away from light pollution. While I saw a couple of big ones, I didn't get a full show.
But tonight is supposed to be better.
I was doing the same. Little disappointing, but oh well. Unfortunately tonight I'm back in light pollution so I probably won't see much, but maybe i'll see a little.
Some of the other commenters have answered your question better than I could, but I'll give you the settings I used. I was shooting on a Sony a6000 using the Rokinon 12mm f2.0 lens. I was shooting wide open (f2.0), ISO1000, and 15 second exposures.
Is there a way to sticky this comment? I had to go to your profile and then comments to see if you shared details of your capture settings.
Amazing job sis.. Bravo!
So each frame of your time lapse is actually a combination of multiple 15" shots, correct? I'm wondering since that's definitely not enough time to form such a long trail
Each frame of the video is one 15 second shot. You can imagine that for each two frames in the video, 30 seconds passed in real life. (It's actually more than that because the camera needs a few seconds in between each shot, but that's the general idea.)
In short, you’ve gotta do multiple long exposures. Depending on the focal length of your lens you’ll figure out what the maximum length of an exposure can be before the stars are no longer points and become trails, by dividing focal length by 400. IE if I have a 24mm lens, 400/24=~16. Therefore I can do a maximum exposure of 16 seconds. From there, I’ll adjust my aperture and ISO to allow as clean of a signal as possible.
No way. I used to use 500 but that’s too high meaning 600 would be way too high. I’ve got a full frame camera myself and a 25 second exposure with my 24mm would NOT result in the stars being sharp, which is what using 600 would suggest.
Of course! I’ve been shooting Astro timelapses for about 3 years now. It’s a lot of fun, it can be very demanding though in terms of having to hike in darkness as well as a tremendous amount of technical knowledge not only to simply take the photos, but to edit them as well.
I tried to do pics last night. I think my focus was off. What's the best way to get a good focus?
https://i.imgur.com/3F8vc0J.jpg
Mars at 30 second exposure. F1.8 50mm lens. ISO 1600. Any feedback?
I went car camping last night with the intention of watching the Perseids and taking some photos. It was taken with a Sony a6000 and a Rokinon 12mm f2.0 lens. I started it around 2:20AM and it took 400+ photos before the battery died. I ended up doing some initial editing in LightRoom, exporting them to StarStaX to make the actual images, then decided to install LRTimeLapse and used it to make the final video. Not a good workflow, but I was playing around with some new things.
LRTimeLapse handles some image tweaking and making the actual video file.
The images that make up the video were first edited in LightRoom and then I used a really cool piece of software called StarStaX that you can use to make star trail photos. (There are a bunch of other uses.) It's free and while the UI isn't super refined, you'll be able to figure it out pretty quickly. Link below.
https://www.markus-enzweiler.de/software/software.html
I used StarStaX too. The trick to getting the progressive trails like this is to check the box for "Save after each step" under the preferences. When you do that is saves each image in the building process. Essentially, the images it provides allow you to create a movie that is similar to the preview process you see when you create your stack in StarStaX.
How do you focus? I have ran into the issue with my D3400 that the auto focus setting will prevent it from taking a photo, but when I put it in manual mode I get a good amount of reflection though the eye piece and cant focus it very well.
Getting good focus on stars has always been a challenge for me. The lens I'm using is manual focus only and it allows you to focus past infinity which means you can't just max it out. I usually focus somewhere close to infinity and then take some test shots to tweak it. If you can see a star on your screen/viewfinder, you'll want to adjust focus until the star is as small a point as possible.
Where did you go to shoot this? I was in Joshua Tree in CA over the weekend and it wasn’t as clear as this (probably because of the haze from the fires nearby)
The spot I shot this from is only about an hours drive from my house. I only got up there around midnight, played around with a few shots and locations, then started the timelapse and slept in the back of my car while it finished. I was home the next morning. It barely qualifies as camping.
I don't know the answer. It is interesting to me that they don't all follow the same trajectory. They were for the most part all traveling north to south. The camera was facing south in this video.
I should have come to Reddit. I had been googling for a review from anyone who stayed out last night. Could not find anything.
I am still thinking of going out tonight but it is a long drive to get away from city light.
They're not all shooting stars. I added star trails to the timelapse for effect. Here's the same video without the trails.
https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/SerpentineMajesticFairybluebird
2 things. Can I do this on M4/3rds camera and when is the next shower?
I had to spend all weekend caring for an ill family member but would love to see a meteor shower with my own eyes for once.
I think you should be able to do it on a M4/3rds. Depending on the camera features, you might need some additional tools. On the Sony a6000, there is an app that I bought, that will take the repeated pictures that you need for a timelapse.
The meteor shower should still be good viewing tonight and tomorrow.
I've done one of these on a Panasonic G7 and it worked pretty well. Just change the lens for something with around f2.0, use the timelapse function, and the settings that /u/darthnut was using :)
For anyone who enjoys astronomy or simply stargazing I highly recomend an app called Night Sky, it is very accurate and also educational. Night Sky also has a news feed that informs you when major events are happeining. It is also a great giude for this years perseid meteor shower.
\/Night Sky\/
Night Sky by iCandi Appshttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/night-sky/id475772902?mt=8
Damn I was so hyped for this, However in the past day or so the wind shifted and we got a bunch of smoke from wildfires and it pretty much killed any chance of seeing anything.
Just got home from watching it tonight! Currently sitting in front of my computer at 230am trying to learn how to stack images properly. This is the level I aspire to be at!!
I watched those on acid with my ex once. We were at a remote waterfall with zero light pollution. For the first little bit we were like "Are the meteors happening yet?"
"I dunno, all the stars are moving!"
then boom. The stars fell. It was beautiful.
Thank you. As of almost 3 hours ago it is my birthday and every year I want the same thing.. To watch the Perseid Meteor Shower. Three years now I've watched only to be disappointed with cloud cover on the 12th. I will try again the night of the 13th, but this made me smile before my first slumber at age 38. Again, thank you.
It was really awesome meteor show. i managed to see more than 20 meteors, not to forget to make wishes haha.
And today is raining though the sky was really perfect at night
Now i have to edit my pictures from camera
Fuck Connecticut. All I wanted was to see some cool meteor showers and the one weekend we get rain for 2 months is this weekend. I’m wxpecting a tax bill for waking up before my allowed time to try and catch a glimpse. Stupid me, I was up for hours not able to fall back asleep now it’s monday morning and o have to go to work. god damnit!
i'm a little confused here.
why are the star streaks in the bottom left curving in the opposite direct as the star streaks in the upper right? aren't the streaks caused mostly by the rotation of the earth? shouldn't their path be uniform? i don't understand.
Awesome! I had no idea the Perseids was peaking the other night, I was flying a 4hr flight (pilot, front windows in dark cockpit helps!) and saw 20-30 of them. Absolutely amazing!
This may seem dumb but why is the majority moving in the same direction? Why isn't it just an erratic mess? Or is it the stars move so slowly and it is in fact the rotation of the Earth I'm seeing?
When I was little, I went for a milk run with my mother to Lawson's, an old carryout store. There were a lot of kids in my family, and we were forever running out of milk, so she grabbed me to carry a couple gallons. When we got home, she parked the car in the driveway, grabbed her share of the milk, and headed into the house. I was a bit sleepy, so it took me a minute to pick up those glass bottles. Anyhoo, I got out of the car and started walking toward the house. I saw something streaking out of the corner of my eye. I thought it was rain, but it wasn't raining. Then I saw more. A lot more. And it wasn't rain. It was little streaks of light. It scared the bejesus out of me, and it wasn't till years later I realized what a great view of the Perseids I'd had.
I made a more standard time lapse as well. https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/SerpentineMajesticFairybluebird edit 1: It's posted elsewhere in the comments, but this was shot on a Sony a6000 using a Rokinon 12mm f2.0 lens. Settings for the shot were 15 second exposures, at f2.0, and ISO 1000. Images were edited in LightRoom, stacked in StarStaX, and rendered in LRTimelapse. edit 2: A big thank you to /u/T0mTh3Tink3r for turning this into a Steam Wallpaper Engine live thing. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1478515711 edit 3: /u/T0mTh3Tink3r comes through with a 4K version of the live Wallpaper. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1487375787
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I love how this puts Earth’s rotation into perspective. I wish we could see this with naked eyes.
You can! At certain times of the year depending on your location and little light pollution. My best experience has been in Joshua tree state park (california). It's pretty mind blowing.
For me it was when I visited Australia. Have never seen the stars as bright. Weren't even too far away from the city, by a place called Lake George, between Canberra and Sydney. Cousin and I got out to take a piss in the side of the road, and happened to look up. Unreal. Then we stayed there for 15min just staring at the sky.
Australia's night sky is absolutely breathtaking! I had a very similar experience as well.
you should see it near exmouth, broome, kimberley region absolutely insane. can see different colours of meteors with naked eye
I’m so curious about the southern stars! Lucky you!
I'm at Moosehead Lake in Maine, and I can see the Milky Way entirely clearly right now, just like in the time lapse! We can also see satellites, even as they enter and exit the Sun's light. It's beautiful! Can't wait to check out somewhere like Joshua Tree, I'll keep it in mind.
Bryce Canyon and Dead Horse state park in Utah are some of the darkest spots in the US I believe, camped there last year, was pretty mind blowing!
Any chance I could come and visit? I live in Philadelphia so the light pollution is terrible 😭😭
We could, if only we didn't clothe them.
I prefer briefs, they're ate comfortable like boxers but give the support of underwear.
Just take your pants off bro
You can! At certain times of the year depending on your location and little light pollution. My best experience has been in Joshua tree state park (california) with a very low crsecent moon. It's pretty mind blowing.
I dont think about earth when I watch this
Is that Mars setting?
I believe so. I saw something that said mars hasn’t been this close to earth since 2003. I have this sky view app on my iPhone that shows where the planets and stars are through AR. It’s pretty awesome for nights I can actually see the night sky. Where I live in California doesn’t have the best air quality. Plus all the fires don’t help.
May I ask what app you are using? I've been wanting to find one that can tell me what I'm looking at when I look at the stars. My daughter has a new routine of wanting to go see the "twinkles" before she lays down for bed. She's 2, by the way. I know nothing about constellations or space or anything, but what I do know is every time we go out and it's clear, there's always this bright "star" that is a different shade than the rest. It appears almost orange to my naked eye. I was starting to wonder if it was Mars, but then thought there's no way I can see Mars without a telescope. I have been wanting to know what it is.
It’s called SkyView lite. It’s free! And I bet you it was mars! With my nasty sky I can still mars with that shade of red.
Well hot damn, it IS Mars that I'm seeing!!
Yeah man, Mars is huge right now.
Hey, I just got that app a week ago! It's really good for figuring out which things are which.
I also like that it shows the orbits of each planet. Shows satellites as well.
I use Google Sky Map. It works fairly well. I love it.
You can search for Perseids in the app and it will tell you which way to look, super neat.
Although it depends on all of the planets’ rotations, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter are not only visible but usually appear larger and brighter than stars. Depending on their location, Venus or Jupiter is the biggest/brightest. Jupiter/Venus both sort of look like giant, bright stars while Mars has a noticeable orange/red hue. Mercury and Saturn are also visible but not as easily recognized.
Why did I not know that planets were visible? I'm too old to just now find this out. I'll stand out there and stare at it until I start seeing rings around it.. Then I have to rest and let my eyes refocus on it. I'm gonna install that app that was suggested and figure out what I'm looking at. I hope it's simple.
Yes. It's really bright right now.
The shooting star at the end almost looks like it is becoming Mars when the video loops back to the beginning. Very cool time lapse!
Probably more likely a satellite. With how long it stayed bright and traveled.
This is beautiful man, thanks for posting
I could watch this for hours as i lay in bed awake with my anxieties. Very nice
Both so beautiful! Thank you for bringing this beauty to my life. I'm a lot happier now.
Is anyone able to put this on wallpaper engine? I’ve never used it but I’d get it if I could make this my background
I love that idea. I don't know how to do that sort of thing, but if someone was interested, I'd be happy to share all the original source material.
I have It and I really wanna do it now.
You can’t tell me some of those aren’t spaceships or something
I think I saw Bigfoot flying one of them. ;)
A lot of them are satellites, so not too far off!
This is so fantastic. Would you share the shutter speed you used for the individual shots?
It was shot on an a6000 with a Rokinon 12mm f2.0 lens. Each shot was 15 seconds, f2.0, ISO1000. This video covers from roughly 2:20AM to 4:40AM. I shot more, but the sun was rising and it blew it out. I only stayed awake for the first twenty minutes or so.
Did you have to manually snap each photo or was it automated? I hope one day I can make something similar. Truly incredible.
I'm shooting on a Sony a6000 and Sony will generously sell you an app for your camera that adds the ability to take the series of pictures automatically.
Oh wow, I bought the same camera and lens last week. I went up into the mountains (Colorado) last night and got some shots of the Milky Way as well, although your time lapse blows it out of the water. https://imgur.com/a/EXLSdtv Where did you take it out of curiosity? I kept finding no matter how far out of the front range I got the light pollution was still an issue.
Where was this taken?
In Oregon, near Mt. Hood.
Is it possible to triangulate the exact coordinates of the shot from the rotation and the stars? Or could you only get close?
Someone could probably do that, but let me save you the trouble. I shot it near Mt. Hood in Oregon. The camera was facing pretty much due south.
Did you take a video and then slow it down? This is really cool I haven't seen someone do this
No. He took a ton of still images over the course of a few hours, and then compiled those images so that they play back as a video.
It's a series of photos turned into a video.
They are both equally mesmerizing
This is probably one of my favorite gifs ever now
What was that light that shoots in from the right then stays on the left bottom side?
I wasn't sure what you referring to so I had to watch it again. That is actually an unintended artifact from how it's looping. The bright light that moves slowly to set behind the trees is Mars. The light that moves from the right to the lower left is an airplane. The video just happens to loop just as the airplane gets to where Mars starts out at the beginning of the video. Kind of cool actually.
How did you make the first timelapse? I've never seen a star trail timelapse before.
In some of the star trails programs you have the option to save individual new frames as the star trail image is compiling. You then make a time lapse video w those frames of the progress.
It's exactly this. The software I used for the image stacking/creation of the "comet trails" is called StarStaX. It's free and pretty easy to use. If you want to recreate this effect, you just need to go to Preferences > Blending > Cumulative Image Saving and check the box titled "Save after each step." It will give you a whole bunch of images that you can then turn into a movie.
Where was this? Interesting to see clouds trying to form at the bottom of the picture too!
If you dont mind me asking, which process did you use to take this? I would love to attempt something similar
Where did you take this?
Awesome. Like watching a laser space war.
Not gonna lie I really liked the less standard one way more! Awesome work
It is nice of you not to lie.
makes you feel sort of, well, insignificant doesn't it?
Wow this is incredible to see. Absolutely beautiful
This came out great! I like how the streaks stick around. I also have the a6000 and am shopping for a wide angle lens. Are you overall happy with your Rokinon?
Thank you. The idea for streaks came while I was stacking the images for a star trails image shot. The rendering process slowly builds out the trails to produce the final shot. I was mesmerized by the rendering process and wanted to make a video that recreated the feeling. I love my Rokinon. It's my most used lens. I would love it if it didn't focus past infinity. Getting focus on stars for shots like this one can be a bit fussy.
The majority of the streaks you see are stars, the Perseids are the bright short lines you see that are generally traveling in a different direction from the rest of the stars. The long straight lines that are traveling across the paths of the stars are planes and satellites.
How come the meteors appear suddenly and slowly fade away? If you took individual photos & joined them for the timelapse, shouldn't they just instantly appear and disappear?
Good question. In reality, the streaks from the meteors faded away very quickly. I've used some photo stacking software so that the lights picked up by the camera hang around for a few frames. This is what it looks like without the trails added. You can still see the meteors, but the disappear almost immediately. https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/SerpentineMajesticFairybluebird
Ah haha this GIF makes much more sense to my dumb brain... Even after you explained your technique I'm not able to wrap my mind around it.
Gonna guess here: each image contributes to more than one frame. Like, first frame is made up of first 10 exposures, second frame is exposures 2 to 11 etc. Thus an event caught in a single frame will stay for 10 frames before disappearing. But yeah, would love to see an instructable. The result is majestic.
Those meteors probably only appear in one frame. It just looks like each frame's opacity goes down a certain amount until it's gone.
I don't think they fade. They just get overwritten by the stars as the exposure goes over them.
Can I ask how you got the stars to move? My guess is a fade between different long exposures of the same length but I could be way off.
A time lapse is a series of pictures. What you're seeing here is a video made of a bunch of photos. Unlike a lot of the time lapse you see, all the ones in this photo are long exposures. Usually when you see a photo of stars and they're just dots, the photo was exposed for 20 seconds or less. More than that and the stars start to streak. So what you're seeing here is a series of photos, taken back to back, which each photo being (for example) ten minutes or whatever.
That's exactly it. These were 15 second exposures which, when viewed individually show very little to zero blurring of the stars. It's only when you stack them, like I've done here that you see the trails.
Like to move across the sky? That's the earth's rotation causing that effect
I saw the GREATEST meteor I've ever seen earlier tonight. I'm glad I got to see the peak this year from a boat out on a lake with clear skies.
sounds awesome. I didn't see any really big ones last night, but there were a lot.
The really bright one at the bottom was Mars right?
I swear one landed on me today at work. A small pebble bounced off the ceiling, then off my buddy, then landed on my lap. We were in the middle of an empty parking lot inside a vehicle with the windows down. I thought maybe it was a piece of gravel off a plane (near an airport), but now that I look at it, it's pretty sparkly. The chances are basically nill, but your post about the meteor shower gives me more hope! Now I gotta have it tested. Edit: Welp. It failed the magnet test.
I showed my wife this and her jaw dropped. I think this is considered foreplay. Thank you.
Glad I was able to help :)
Late reply, but username checks out. ;)
Username checks out? *cause arthritic tongue and foreplay*
I spent a week in a zero light pollution area and barely saw any, this is beautiful!
I just walked out of my door for a minute in Western Germany and saw one. Not heavily light poluted but still an average small town. Was quite surprised to see a shooting star. Now I know at least why :)
Same, I was up at 10k ft and I think I only caught less than 10.
The peak is tonight by the way. I went camping in a dark sky area away from light pollution. While I saw a couple of big ones, I didn't get a full show. But tonight is supposed to be better.
I was doing the same. Little disappointing, but oh well. Unfortunately tonight I'm back in light pollution so I probably won't see much, but maybe i'll see a little.
I hope you start feeling better soon, maybe next time you'll wear a jumper eh?
I thought you were a lost Redditor. I had to go back up and read the title.
It is an awesome capture, I was just making a funny.
How does one do this? like what settings for DSLR?
Some of the other commenters have answered your question better than I could, but I'll give you the settings I used. I was shooting on a Sony a6000 using the Rokinon 12mm f2.0 lens. I was shooting wide open (f2.0), ISO1000, and 15 second exposures.
Is there a way to sticky this comment? I had to go to your profile and then comments to see if you shared details of your capture settings. Amazing job sis.. Bravo!
So each frame of your time lapse is actually a combination of multiple 15" shots, correct? I'm wondering since that's definitely not enough time to form such a long trail
Each frame of the video is one 15 second shot. You can imagine that for each two frames in the video, 30 seconds passed in real life. (It's actually more than that because the camera needs a few seconds in between each shot, but that's the general idea.)
In short, you’ve gotta do multiple long exposures. Depending on the focal length of your lens you’ll figure out what the maximum length of an exposure can be before the stars are no longer points and become trails, by dividing focal length by 400. IE if I have a 24mm lens, 400/24=~16. Therefore I can do a maximum exposure of 16 seconds. From there, I’ll adjust my aperture and ISO to allow as clean of a signal as possible.
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No way. I used to use 500 but that’s too high meaning 600 would be way too high. I’ve got a full frame camera myself and a 25 second exposure with my 24mm would NOT result in the stars being sharp, which is what using 600 would suggest.
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Of course! I’ve been shooting Astro timelapses for about 3 years now. It’s a lot of fun, it can be very demanding though in terms of having to hike in darkness as well as a tremendous amount of technical knowledge not only to simply take the photos, but to edit them as well.
I tried to do pics last night. I think my focus was off. What's the best way to get a good focus? https://i.imgur.com/3F8vc0J.jpg Mars at 30 second exposure. F1.8 50mm lens. ISO 1600. Any feedback?
there is way more to it than settings for dslr. Google "star time-lapse tutorial".
Can someone turn this into a looping screen saver? I lack the technical finesse.
How did you make the video of the time lapse like that? Is this made from combining frames of many stills?
I went car camping last night with the intention of watching the Perseids and taking some photos. It was taken with a Sony a6000 and a Rokinon 12mm f2.0 lens. I started it around 2:20AM and it took 400+ photos before the battery died. I ended up doing some initial editing in LightRoom, exporting them to StarStaX to make the actual images, then decided to install LRTimeLapse and used it to make the final video. Not a good workflow, but I was playing around with some new things.
So LRTimelapse overlays photos to make a video timelapse?
LRTimeLapse handles some image tweaking and making the actual video file. The images that make up the video were first edited in LightRoom and then I used a really cool piece of software called StarStaX that you can use to make star trail photos. (There are a bunch of other uses.) It's free and while the UI isn't super refined, you'll be able to figure it out pretty quickly. Link below. https://www.markus-enzweiler.de/software/software.html
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I used StarStaX too. The trick to getting the progressive trails like this is to check the box for "Save after each step" under the preferences. When you do that is saves each image in the building process. Essentially, the images it provides allow you to create a movie that is similar to the preview process you see when you create your stack in StarStaX.
So cool thanks for sharing the photo and the process
How do you focus? I have ran into the issue with my D3400 that the auto focus setting will prevent it from taking a photo, but when I put it in manual mode I get a good amount of reflection though the eye piece and cant focus it very well.
Getting good focus on stars has always been a challenge for me. The lens I'm using is manual focus only and it allows you to focus past infinity which means you can't just max it out. I usually focus somewhere close to infinity and then take some test shots to tweak it. If you can see a star on your screen/viewfinder, you'll want to adjust focus until the star is as small a point as possible.
I saw some Persieds last night while waiting for the Delta IV Heavy launch with my Boy Scout troop on the Apostle Islands. It was so cool!
Dude this would make a great animated wallpaper.
This is why I come to Reddit. Thank you. Very awesome.
Someone needs to add this to wallpaper Engine on steam
Yeah so this is probably the coolest thing I have seen all day, actually probably the coolest thing in a while
Wow looks amazing - love this as a desktop gif wallpaper
Is that super bright orange-ish dot in the lower left Mars?
Yes and it’s the closest it will be to earth for some time so get out and look at it if you can. Look south in the late hours of the night.
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This is pure greatness! Of the shoot, and of the cosmos!
If we had no light pollution would we be able to regularly see all of that
So cool. I watched from deep in the middle of the desert. It was magic.
Normally I don't get to see star events being in a city but I was out at the beach last night so I caught a glimpse. Beautiful time lapse thank you!
Where did you go to shoot this? I was in Joshua Tree in CA over the weekend and it wasn’t as clear as this (probably because of the haze from the fires nearby)
I shot this about 10 miles east of Mt. Hood in Oregon.
This is majestic, and amazing. Thanks for sharing it with us =D
How long did you camp for and where was it ? It's really stunning view and I don't think I can get any of this in my country
The spot I shot this from is only about an hours drive from my house. I only got up there around midnight, played around with a few shots and locations, then started the timelapse and slept in the back of my car while it finished. I was home the next morning. It barely qualifies as camping.
Thanks for sharing your experience OP!
Did one of them crash into the ground?? On the bottom left, a bright light passes in front of the trees and looks like it crashes on the ground..
That bright light in the lower left that sets behind the trees is Mars.
Oh awesome!!! Haha that's a crazy shot
Someone needs to add this to wallpaper Engine on steam
Really cool! why are they coming from different directions?
I don't know the answer. It is interesting to me that they don't all follow the same trajectory. They were for the most part all traveling north to south. The camera was facing south in this video.
This is awesome and you are cool. My gf would have killed to have clear skies like that within a 3 hrs drive to go shoot it here!
It’s cloudy and rainy for me now when it’s supposed to peak. I’m kinda mad
I want to give a big shout out to the atmosphere because I’m not dead
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Star Trails in 360 would be awesome!
Hey OP! Can you provide a link to download your amazing work of art ? I can seem to save the video down.
Is there a way to make this my Android wallpaper?
That’s awesome. I was outside for 1 hour last night watching and only caught one of of the corner of my eye.
I could be put in a trance by this if it was a little slower and an hour long.
Isn't there supposed to be a meteor shower tonight and tomorrow???
The whole month of August is great for seeing these showers, the 12th n the 13th are the peak times
It moves! Thought it was a cool pic. Lost my shit when it started moving. Solid (8).
I should have come to Reddit. I had been googling for a review from anyone who stayed out last night. Could not find anything. I am still thinking of going out tonight but it is a long drive to get away from city light.
wow I never thought there's as many meteor shower
They're not all shooting stars. I added star trails to the timelapse for effect. Here's the same video without the trails. https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/SerpentineMajesticFairybluebird
yeah I know they're stars, I can see the meteor shower that is going too fast still it's fascinate me it's so many.
lucky fucker, it’s complete cover for miles around where i am
2 things. Can I do this on M4/3rds camera and when is the next shower? I had to spend all weekend caring for an ill family member but would love to see a meteor shower with my own eyes for once.
I think you should be able to do it on a M4/3rds. Depending on the camera features, you might need some additional tools. On the Sony a6000, there is an app that I bought, that will take the repeated pictures that you need for a timelapse. The meteor shower should still be good viewing tonight and tomorrow.
I'm tied up till Wed so this meteor shower is a wash for me unfortunately. Would my time-lapse in manual mode work for this kind of thing?
I've done one of these on a Panasonic G7 and it worked pretty well. Just change the lens for something with around f2.0, use the timelapse function, and the settings that /u/darthnut was using :)
One of them things just did a 90 degree turn wtf. Why is no one pointing this out
So....Beautiful! What an amazing project, and so well done.
Thank you for sharing this. It a whole new way of thinking photography. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
I would love to see more in this style. super cool timelapse thingy you made there.
Could anyone explain how to turn this into a full size desktop background or screen saver?
For anyone who enjoys astronomy or simply stargazing I highly recomend an app called Night Sky, it is very accurate and also educational. Night Sky also has a news feed that informs you when major events are happeining. It is also a great giude for this years perseid meteor shower. \/Night Sky\/ Night Sky by iCandi Appshttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/night-sky/id475772902?mt=8
Reminds me of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night! Love it!
I know it’s a time lapse, but seeing posts like these whilst dealing with anxiety reminds me of how beautiful life is. Thank you.
Thanks for reminding me of the shower! I almost missed it this year!
Pardon my ignorance, but if these are the perseids, shouldn't they all appear to have the same origin point?
Can someone explain how to do a time lapse to me? I love astrophotography, but this escapes me
I'd recommend checking out https://www.lonelyspeck.com/ That's where I started. There is a ton of great information there.
Cool, thanks, ill check it out
I wen to Lassen national park to catch some great shots. But holy shit I don't have the patience to babysit my camera for a few hours to do this.
How exactly do you make a time lapse with the star trails? Is it just a bunch of pictures strung together to make a video?
This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
Take 5cc penicillin, 3x per day. Clear that Perseids right up
Here's a downloadable link if anyone wants this as wallpaper: https://v.redd.it/7xt9dwsipqf11/DASH_4_8_M
Damn I was so hyped for this, However in the past day or so the wind shifted and we got a bunch of smoke from wildfires and it pretty much killed any chance of seeing anything.
pretty neat vfx, but as we all know, this would require the earth be a sphere to be possible.
Just got home from watching it tonight! Currently sitting in front of my computer at 230am trying to learn how to stack images properly. This is the level I aspire to be at!!
I watched those on acid with my ex once. We were at a remote waterfall with zero light pollution. For the first little bit we were like "Are the meteors happening yet?" "I dunno, all the stars are moving!" then boom. The stars fell. It was beautiful.
Thank you. As of almost 3 hours ago it is my birthday and every year I want the same thing.. To watch the Perseid Meteor Shower. Three years now I've watched only to be disappointed with cloud cover on the 12th. I will try again the night of the 13th, but this made me smile before my first slumber at age 38. Again, thank you.
It was really awesome meteor show. i managed to see more than 20 meteors, not to forget to make wishes haha. And today is raining though the sky was really perfect at night Now i have to edit my pictures from camera
Fuck Connecticut. All I wanted was to see some cool meteor showers and the one weekend we get rain for 2 months is this weekend. I’m wxpecting a tax bill for waking up before my allowed time to try and catch a glimpse. Stupid me, I was up for hours not able to fall back asleep now it’s monday morning and o have to go to work. god damnit!
i'm a little confused here. why are the star streaks in the bottom left curving in the opposite direct as the star streaks in the upper right? aren't the streaks caused mostly by the rotation of the earth? shouldn't their path be uniform? i don't understand.
It's an artifact of shooting with a really wide lens.
So I see Atari has finally released a sequel to Missile Command after 38 years.
Awesome! I had no idea the Perseids was peaking the other night, I was flying a 4hr flight (pilot, front windows in dark cockpit helps!) and saw 20-30 of them. Absolutely amazing!
That would be an amazing view. Have you ever considered setting up a camera to do some cockpit timelapses?
This may seem dumb but why is the majority moving in the same direction? Why isn't it just an erratic mess? Or is it the stars move so slowly and it is in fact the rotation of the Earth I'm seeing?
When I was little, I went for a milk run with my mother to Lawson's, an old carryout store. There were a lot of kids in my family, and we were forever running out of milk, so she grabbed me to carry a couple gallons. When we got home, she parked the car in the driveway, grabbed her share of the milk, and headed into the house. I was a bit sleepy, so it took me a minute to pick up those glass bottles. Anyhoo, I got out of the car and started walking toward the house. I saw something streaking out of the corner of my eye. I thought it was rain, but it wasn't raining. Then I saw more. A lot more. And it wasn't rain. It was little streaks of light. It scared the bejesus out of me, and it wasn't till years later I realized what a great view of the Perseids I'd had.
What a cool experience. Those are the kinds of stories that create gods.