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regular dude here. I thought it would be cool to try to photograph the perseids last year. I didn't want to spend a bunch of money so I just tried with a basic dslr/lens. I bought an intervalometer with the intention of using deep sky stacker to stack multiple captured meteors in a single image. a very optimistic plan I suppose in hindsight. shoot was only 2 hours or so in two parts due to cloud cover. I learned that the sky is littered with satellites that can ruin a series of shots, and that for great clarity either a motorized tracking camera mount or a great lens needs to be used with a shorter shutter time to minimize smearing of the stars. probably you need both and a moderate shutter speed. I learned that I should not use the little built in lcd to determine shutter speed. also realized I know fuck all about editing. I had some "photography" friends who said it was hard, I should have listened. basically, I found out the hard way how inadequate my equipment was, I would need a significantly more light sensitive lens/aperture. Even in a bortle 2 area, the milky way didn't photograph well, perhaps it was a bad night for it. andromeda showed up better than the milky way, weirdly. it was still a beautiful night. saw a proper fireball as I was setting up, heartbreaker. here's a heavily jpeg'd raw of a meteor I captured...theres also a satellite.
