I am not an accomplished astronomy photographer, and indeed this was my first attempt at it. However, with the Perseid meteor shower, a cloudless night and no wave action on the lake I thought I would give it a try. I brought the camera with tripod down to the dock to see what I could get. Turns out that there was also aurora activity that night. What a chance to play!
I really like what I captured, and this may turn out to be a little addictive.
This is one of the first shots that I took. It has my neighbour’s boats in it, and on processing I could see two meteors.
Taken focusing further down the lake. The treed area without lights is snowshoe island on Emma lake. A total of three meteors here.
And this one was playing with the northern lights and the milky way. A total of five images with the same exposure stitched together in photoshop. It looks a little unreal, but I love how it turned out. 1 meteor visible here for the eagle eyed to spot.
