{"id":724,"date":"2023-08-14T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2023-08-14T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T18:27:03","slug":"perseid-meteors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Perseid Meteors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-1024x621.jpg\" alt=\"Perseid Meteors, composite image by David Bookstaber\" class=\"wp-image-725\" title=\"Perseid Meteors composite image by David Bookstaber\" srcset=\"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-1024x621.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-1536x932.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-2048x1243.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-1040x631.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-640x388.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Perseid meteors.  That&#8217;s Jupiter near the middle of the frame.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I set up my old Sony A77II with an intervalometer for an hour and managed to capture these Perseid meteors.  I was using my widest lens, 16mm, shooting ISO 1600 with 10 second exposures.  It took some real work to post-process and compose this image: I had to find the frames with meteors and stack and align them in Photoshop.  The result is nothing great for several reasons, including that (a) meteor shower photos should use a wider lens, and (b) should include a horizon or some ground feature for perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s easier to get better results using a smartphone, not only because a typical smartphone has a very wide lens, but also because software can take care of identifying frames that contain meteors and aligning them.  After the fact I checked the app store and found at least one cheap app that does this with a built-in &#8220;Meteor Mode.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set up my old Sony A77II with an intervalometer for an hour and managed to capture these Perseid meteors&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-skies","post-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Perseids-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}