Meteor
What have we here?
If you recall my previous (and dismal) attempts at capturing meteor trails, you’ll know that I didn’t capture a single one.
This time, I was taking some wide angle shots of the Milky Way, rising vertically from the south. The camera was running on auto-pilot, capturing plenty of frames for stacking and processing, and I was wandering around looking at the night sky and cursing the amount of light pollution.
I’d seen a few satellites go over, a couple of planes, and a couple of meteors, and was expecting to have a reasonable shot of the Milky Way.
When looking through the resultant images and discarding those with too much rubbish, I stumbled across Image 2, below.
But before we get to that, have a look at the final processed image. I’m not totally happy with the colours and (lack of) detail. For what I’ve heard, to get images of similar quality to those from a dark sky site, you need to have at least 4 times as much data in a light polluted area, from short-exposure images. All to try and get rid of all that light pollution.
If you look carefully at the bottom of the image, you can see ‘The Pointers’, the Australian Cross, the Coalsack Nebula, Eta Carina nebula and the Large Magellanic Cloud peeping from the right-hand side.