Friday, April 10, 2009

Trailing Above North Cascades National Park in a Meteor Shower

This image was created with 65 consecutive 30 second exposures stacked for the trails and 2 dark frames for noise reduction and 2 frames for the foreground detail. If you look carefully you can see Perseid meteors zooming through the frame as this was taken at the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower pointing towards the radiant. One my favorite yearly astronomical events!

Images were stacked with Max Lyon's stacker program and then merged in PS. If I had my superwide Tokina 11-16 for this I could have included the N. Star, that would have rocked.

1 comment:

Vivian aka Deborah said...

wow!...what a find, stumbling upon your wonderful photo blog here. This photo of the meteors is awesome! I hope you continue to post more.