I very much plan on enjoying the insane amounts of daylight (19 hours at least, not sure about the peak) this summer - some absolutely unreal light during these times! Still...I can't help but look forward to late summer and autumn when the dark skies return and the mosquitoes fuck off a little.
99% sure this is a falling meteor and not iridium flare (the sliver of light in the top left of the photo) but I could be wrong. So sure because this frame is a part of a time lapse clip and normally satelites leave their path through several images. This flash of light was apparent in only one frame.
Reprocessed with a bigger size - please full view!
To see the time lapse video trailer that this is a part of, please visit here:
[link] This particular clip is very short and can be seen near the end of the video.
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Sta.sh
1. How did you focus the night sky? It's dark and I find that is very very hard to focus if there's no light
2. How did you find the the Milky Way? How can you see it? Like If I try to shoot a picture of the Milky Way it'll probably cut off a bit in my picture. I can see that you have captured the full view of the Milky Way. And that's very impressive.
2. You have a much, much more epic view of the Milky Way in California than I do in Northern Canada. Be happy for that.
You don't need to wait that long. Five or ten minutes will more than do the trick. When ready...just look up. The Milky Way should be hard to miss.
Also, light from the "blue" end of the spectrum basically destroys the compound and it dissolves from the rods. Red light leaves it unaffected. So if you need a flashlight, as I said above, find a way to filter it deep red if you can't find one already red-tinted. :3
Putting the two together isn't as hard as it might seem either
I'm reeeally sorry for taking so long to respond. I'm often very busy and things come up, not a good combination haha
Light has different energy levels, or wavelengths, and in the visible spectrum we can see that seven main colors of light compose what we call "visible" or white light. (you can see the effect of white light or sunlight being split, or diffracted as it's technically called, into the seven colors of the spectrum when you see a rainbow, or when you let let sunlight pass through a prism at the right angle.
The colors in order are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The higher energy light (green-blue and up) causes your night vision to diminish (if you held a flashlight filtered even deep blue your night vision would be destroyed and you would have to start again) so that's why it's important to use a red filtered one.
The point of bringing the light is just so you can see in general if you need a light.
On your lens you should be able to find, somewhere near your focusing ring, some numbers indicated in feet or meters or both, and some sort of line or marker near this readout to set the distance from your sensor you want the lens focus to be centered on. If you can't find it you should tell me what lens model you are using so I can show you.
In the dark, even with dark-adapted eyes, it can be hard to see the numbers and the focus line on your manual focus readout, so that's basically all the flashlight is for. It will let you see without blinding you, I guess is the short version, hahaha!
If there is anything else you need to know don't hesitate to ask...And sorry again for taking a while to respond. Life is crazy at the moment!
Thomas