This is from a week or two ago in the San Juans at Dallas Divide in SW Colorado. My goal and focus was doing Deep Space Astro with my long lens and tracker, but of course I still set up cameras for timelapses. I haven't gotten any timelapses done since I am back at my daughters and the 6 grandkids, but an awesome biproduct of the timelapses is I can pull images out that I want. In this case I had noticed a ton of meteors burning up in the sky while looking at the galaxies and nebulas. So I decided to put them all together.
Since I was going to be blending anyway, the ground layer is one image from before the moon set. So the moon is lighting it up. I then took for the sky one of the images that had a meteor but also had the Milky Way in a pretty good spot since the Milky Way was traveling through my frame from Left to Right during the course of the night. I then went though with a layer mask and blended in the various meteors from during the night.
It's kind of amazing in that often we think of night skies with lot's a meteors happening during Meteor Showers like Perseids or Geminid. But in this case, it's just a regular old night...
All frames used in this were shot at ISO 3200, 25 secs and f2.2
All comments are welcome,
Jim
1 - Original
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2 - Edit with 1 Meteor Removed per Jameel's suggestion
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