Thursday, December 30, 2010

Night of the Shooting Stars

I spent a night of December 13-14, 2010, watching the Geminid meteor shower and made a time-lapse movie of the event. Read my story of the night here.

I made my movie by setting the camera's sensitivity to ISO 3200 and took 16 second exposures. The intervalometer was set at 17 second intervals. So this is an almost continuous record of the four and a half hours of the night. The pictures are played back at a rate of 15 frames per second.

Things that move are not meteors...they're stars, planes and clouds. Meteors appear in single frames so they're just flashes (just like in real life!).

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