Milky Way w/ Meteor Entry in California

[metastable]

Shot along Interstate 5 about 150 miles north of San Francisco, looking to the southwest, RAW single exposure d800 DSLR, 14-24mm lens, 10 seconds, 2.8f, 2000iso with custom raw conversion settings in lightroom

[metastable]

here's a bonus image from the same shoot with a couple satellites visible and possible galaxy in the top right part of the image about 3/4ths of the way over from the left and about 1/10th of the way down from the top:

[j.gardavsky]

That's a lucky strike,

meteor flying across the North America Nebula, above California,
and the Andromeda Galaxy is visible as well,
JG

[Don Quixote]

Beautiful images, Met.
Can you elaborate on your custom raw settings in lightroom ? :-)

[metastable]

Beautiful images, Met.
Can you elaborate on your custom raw settings in lightroom ? :-)

Thanks. I think I had it set like this:

Temp: 4637k
Tint: +2
Exposure: -0.97
Contrast: +87
Highlights: -100
Shadows: +100
Whites:+73
Blacks: +100
Clarity: +22
Dehaze: -1
Vibrance: -61
Saturation: -40

[Peter802]

Beautiful image.
Thank you for sharing it.

[Don Quixote]

Thank you Met. I appreciate this info. I like your outcomes. I will give these settings a try.

[StarGazer45]

Nice catch!

What a beautiful location for astrophotography!

StarGazer45

[metastable]

at least 1 meteor in this one:



andromeda to the right of the middle in the upper 1/3rd:



shooting in raw brings out a lot of detail:



same image “in camera”:

[StarGazer45]

Spectacular images metastable!

StarGazer45

[Ozypic]

Excellent!

[pakarinen]

Were those taken from a rest stop or did you just pull over on the 5? I'm curious b/c I used to drive on an interstate through some darker skies than home and I was hesitant to stop on the shoulder - figured I might catch a semi up my wazoo.

[Mac]

Were those taken from a rest stop or did you just pull over on the 5? I'm curious b/c I used to drive on an interstate through some darker skies than home and I was hesitant to stop on the shoulder - figured I might catch a semi up my wazoo.

Looks like it is the off-ramp.

I had this exact thought when returning from my home town Christmas night. The skies were so dark and transparency was excellent but I forgot my wide angle lens which I normally have in my bag.

Excellent shots

[metastable]

It’s an off ramp... I think the rest stops have too many lights.

[metastable]

I took these close to nevada city, california quite a while back, I made the streaks with an iphone flashlight:



This was the first picture I took where I captured andromeda (unintentionally— middle of pic to the right of the milky way):

[Bigzmey]

Looks great!

[Jockinireland]

This is a great selection of images. Thanks for sharing