meteor

This is a timelapse from the Perseid Meteor Shower. I captured this out at Joshua Tree National Park. I made a concerted effort to find a straight spot in the road that goes through Joshua Tree to hopefully eliminate lights from cars. I was not successful it seems.... one of these days. I did...

On my way back from Colorado to California, I went by way of New Mexico, Arizona and then California. I managed to stop by in Sedona just as Jeffrey was meeting with Doug, so I had an hour or two to hang out with them by Red Rock Crossing before I left to go up to the Grand Canyon for my first...

I went out camping with the 6 grandkids and my daughter to Dowdy Lake in Northern Colorado. It's a lake by an area called Red Feather Lakes. I had never been there before so it was all new to me. We were able to get a campsite right next to the lake and I found that it had this very cool rock...

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...

This is from a week ago in Valley of Fire. After shooting the stars over the Fire Wave I came over by my campsite and went down the road just a bit to set up for timelapses. This is one from the timelapses I shot and it was one of the last shots captured by my beloved Nikon D810 before huge...

I know a lot of people don't visit the Video forum so here is a link to a timelapse I did yesterday. Abbott Church Geminids Meteor Shower | Focal World

Well, this from back in August at the Devil's Tower in Wyoming. I had taken my 9 year old granddaughter up with me so we could watch and capture the Perseids Meteor shower. It seemed like most of the meteors were away from Devil's Tower on that night, but after going through them, I found enough...

I shot this back in September in the Mojave desert on my way back out to Colorado from a brief break in California. I was looking for a dark area as I was driving and the Mojave looked like a great place to set up and shoot from and didn't take me too far off my route. When I was going through...

I ran up to the Devil's Tower with my oldest Granddaughter to capture the Perseids Meteor shower over Devil's Tower. After shooting the sunset, I found a spot which was a pullout on the road that goes up to the Tower that would suit the bill. I wanted to be able to shoot next to the Jeep so that...

The Devil's Backbone is a structure that I have seen what seems like hundreds of times as I drive up into the Rocky Mountain NP on HWY 34 from my Daughters house. Always in too much of hurry I zip by it, but when Alisa had bought some new lenses when I was in Colorado and she needed help in...

This from the beginning of August when Alisa and I went to American Basin to shoot wildflowers, and we got tons of awesome wildflower photos from there with the bloom being a week or two later then normal due to the extreme snow this year. The major road into it got taken out by landslides the...

When I was up in the Grand Teton's camping with 5 grandkids, I snuck out of the tent about midnight to go and capture the moon rise as it first light shines and lights up the peaks of the Tetons. I was fortunate that I got a cool meteor in this image too, it's one of the first as the peaks were...

My last star shot in Yosemite was my best I think as this meteor streaked right through the shot in the middle of the exposure. It was really exciting to see that streak happen and the 6 or 7 of us up at Tunnel View all gasped and got excited. This is a one shot image, it's my favorite time...

So here's what you need... 1. You have to aim to the NE. All the meteors come out of one basic area and that is to the NE. 2. There is a short window to capture it unfortunately because the moon is 3/4 full and rises at 11pm. Once the moon rises it will wash out 50% of the stars, so will you...