2015-08-13 Perseid meteor shower, sunrise, and afternoon clouds
This is a timelapse I took of the Perseid meteor shower, sunrise, and afternoon clouds in my back yard the morning of August 13, 2015. I missed most of the night because I had to wait until 12:50 AM for the sky to clear after thunderstorms, and dawn was less than three hours later. We did have some amazing green air glow though! The Andromeda galaxy can be seen to the right of the Milky Way as Pleiades and Capella can be seen rising from the tree tops, facing roughly 58° north east on the compass dial.
I took 1,937 photos for almost thirteen and a half hours until 2:17 PM when the battery in my Nexus 7 tablet running qDslrDashboard died. I had a dew heater on the lens through the night and sunrise, set to 5° above ambient temperature, but even that wasn’t enough to completely prevent dew on the lens at sunrise. I should have dialed it up more.
Taken with a Nikon D810, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8, DewNot heat strip, DewBuster Controller, Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod & BH-55 ballhead, and qDslrDashboard running on a Nexus 7 (2013 model) for shutter, ISO, and aperture ramping. The night exposures were 14mm, f/2.8, ISO 5000, 20 seconds ramped to f/13, ISO 64, 1/2500 for some of the day shots. Edited with Lightroom / LRTimelapse and rendered in 7.3K ProRes 442HQ with Premiere Pro from 16-bit TIFFs.
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