Stars and a meteor

[LCLimages]

So I'd never attempted this before, and learned some lessons on how quickly stars move and ISO vs shutter speed vs dealing with noise vs tiny star trails last night. Both are shot with very different settings. If I could have told the comet in the 2nd one when to show up, I would have directed it to shot #1 which isn't so freakin noisy, but I hadn't exactly planned on seeing a comet last night so I consider myself lucky

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That comet or whatever it was kept right on burning for another couple seconds after the shot, I've never seen one so slow moving and long lasting.

 

[pgriz]

That "comet" would be a meteor or... a bit of space junk falling into the atmosphere and burning up. A true comet would be visible (if visible to the eye) for a number of nights, as it would usually be quite far from Earth (and that's a VERY good thing, as you don't want space icebergs of several miles width intersecting with Earth).

 

[dannylightning]

those turned out really good.

 

[LCLimages]

Thanks! Wasn't sure what it technically was. Meteor/space junk, it looked cool!

 

[Actinia]

Impressive! What were your settings?