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Goddamit I was so pissed off about this.
I spent 3 hours taking photos before I realized my ISO was too high, and the photos were ruined. I spend another hour on this, and goddamn planes ruined the photos. fukkkkkkkk
EDIT: That amazing moment when your photo suddenly increases in awesomeness. Allow me to explain:
The photo works by taking a large series of 30-second exposures, each one taken almost immediately after the last. It takes .1 seconds for the shutter to close and open again, during which time the stars can move. This results in some star trail photos looking like dotted lines if you look closely. Anyways, you do this for some time (an hour for this), and you end up with every single light in the sky being drawn in on the photo after its stitched together. Primarily, this is the stars. It also includes planes, which are the trails of dotted lines across the sky (from the lights on the wing tips flashing). I had quite a few in this one, but one seemed out of place: the one near the bottom that's a white curved line. It has no dots, and it suddenly stops partly across. Weird. It took me a while to realize, but that's a meteor. Those things streak across the sky in a blink, and this one happened to catch the edge of a photo. In the .1 seconds, it traversed the gap easily to continue across the night sky.
Long story short: there are still a lot of goddamn planes, but there's a friggin' meteor in my photo. HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!?!
I spent 3 hours taking photos before I realized my ISO was too high, and the photos were ruined. I spend another hour on this, and goddamn planes ruined the photos. fukkkkkkkk
EDIT: That amazing moment when your photo suddenly increases in awesomeness. Allow me to explain:
The photo works by taking a large series of 30-second exposures, each one taken almost immediately after the last. It takes .1 seconds for the shutter to close and open again, during which time the stars can move. This results in some star trail photos looking like dotted lines if you look closely. Anyways, you do this for some time (an hour for this), and you end up with every single light in the sky being drawn in on the photo after its stitched together. Primarily, this is the stars. It also includes planes, which are the trails of dotted lines across the sky (from the lights on the wing tips flashing). I had quite a few in this one, but one seemed out of place: the one near the bottom that's a white curved line. It has no dots, and it suddenly stops partly across. Weird. It took me a while to realize, but that's a meteor. Those things streak across the sky in a blink, and this one happened to catch the edge of a photo. In the .1 seconds, it traversed the gap easily to continue across the night sky.
Long story short: there are still a lot of goddamn planes, but there's a friggin' meteor in my photo. HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!?!
Category Photography / Scenery
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 848px
File Size 140.5 kB
Thank you :) For the most part, I don't mind the planes, but for some reason, they were really active in this airspace, and there's no nearby airport. It's too far north to be chicago/detroit planes, too far west to be Kalamazoo, too far south to be Grand Rapids... the nearby military base has no planes... Also, the thing that REALLY ticks me off about these is that, I kid you not, those planes at the bottom looked like fireballs when they were flying by. That's why the line is so bright.
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