2018 Perseid meteors barely visible against suburban light pollution | Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7

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I was very pleasantly surprised to see my very first "night lapse" photography/video turned out really well: Despite severe light pollution from a suburban area, you can definitely see hundreds of stars, and even the occasional Perseid meteor.

Viewing Hints for this video: Any light streak lasting longer than a single frame (1/24th of a second) is a plane. Any light streak moving very slowly is a satellite. But if the light streak is very faint and lasts only a single frame, it's a meteor :-)

Camera used: Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7
Lens: Rokinon (Samyang) 12mm f2.0 (wide-angle, manual focus)

Because of the light pollution, I had to use drastically less-sensitive settings than typical night photography. The photos captured here were with my lens wide open at f2.0 (normal), but the camera was set to ISO 200 and a shutter of only 6 seconds (both not typical for astrophotography). Any attempts at increasing the ISO, or lengthening the shutter duration, caused a near complete white-out of the sky.







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