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How to shoot the Parseids???

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Forcillo
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So I'm going out tonight at around 3am to shoot the parseids. I was thinking of using ISO 1600, 30 second exposures and a 3.5 aperture (That's my widest). Then just using an intervalometer to get as many shots as I can. Then compiling them all in photoshop to get a cool looking shot, maybe time lapsing as well.. Would these settings be good? I'm not sure if I should go with a shorter exposure or anything, suggestions will be appreciated! I have a 60d by the way, so anything above iso 1600 will be pretty noisy. Gavinrudy I know you have answers for this.
Aug 11 2013 10:17PM
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jkauffman22
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If you take 600 and divide it by your focal length you cancalulate the maximum amount of time that you can expose for before you start to get star trails. So unless you want star trails, you will have to have an exposure that is shorter than 46 seconds. If you want more information I can try to help out more but 1600 on the 60d is good and Lightroom can remove noise pretty well too.
Aug 11 2013 10:32PM
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Forcillo
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I wasn't worried about star trails, but thanks for the info! I was more concerned that 30 seconds would wash out the fainter meteors, but I want enough detail in the sky to make it interesting.
Aug 11 2013 10:50PM
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CheddarJack
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I'd say 15 or 20 seconds at would be 1600 proper, depending on how much light pollution you're dealing with. I'm not sure about recording the meteors though... I'll be trying to get some on camera tomorrow night. The shower will still be going on. You can of course play around with out though, you have all night.
Aug 11 2013 11:54PM
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Forcillo
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Thanks Jack! I have hardly any light pollution where I am, but the clouds have made an appearance so I'm a tiny bit peeved.
Aug 11 2013 11:56PM
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jkauffman22
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From my experience you will have a harder time gettin the fainter meteors to show up than washing them out. As long as you shoot raw you should be able to bring back detail in Lightroom
Aug 11 2013 11:57PM
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Mag
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http://prophotocoalition.com/dcarr/story/10_tips_to_better_meteor_photography
Aug 12 2013 9:33AM
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juicedrummer11
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dont forget to take off the lens cap. i thought this was so easy that it never needed to be stated...until i shot a 20 sec exposure with a low aperture and high ISO yesterday and wondered why i couldn't see shit.
Aug 12 2013 1:12PM
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CheddarJack
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How'd they come out, Alex? I'm looking to head to the beach tonight to take some pictures. Hopefully I can get some good ones.
Aug 12 2013 1:20PM
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Forcillo
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Pretty decent, ended up with this
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I also made a star trail which you can see on my 500px profile. Tonight I'm gonna aim at perseus and get a more interesting foreground as well as include the milky way. I'm really hoping it turns out better.
Aug 12 2013 11:48PM
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Mag
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Saw this on dpreview, pretty cool

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Aug 14 2013 1:12PM
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