Cassiopeia Perseids and Aurora 12/08/24

[Crackabarrel]

Two images from the night of 12/08, taken from Bective Abbey, Navan, Ireland.

 

I had originally set out to get tracked shots of Cassiopeia hoping for a few Perseids to cross the frame, however clouds rolled in and limited exposure time to roughly 15mins, of which approx 10min were used for the stack.

Initially i did not think I had caught any, but getting back to the computer it seemed I did, after all, get a fairly decent one and a few smaller ones in some of the frames.

Images with meteors were stacked separately from those without in Sequator and combined and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.

 

As the clouds began to roll in I noticed that there was a glow on the horizon with aurora structures visible to the naked eye, switching to this resulted in a timelapse and this shot from inside the Abbey, which is a composite, an aurora frame from straight outside the window and another shot from inside with the window lit by warm white fairly lights.

 

All images taken with Nikon Z7ii and 50mm F1.8z

Cassiopeia - 25 x 20sec @ f2.2 ISO1600 (Tracked)

 

Thanks for looking.

Edited August 15 by Crackabarrel

[FenlandPaul]

Absolute keeper than Aurora shot! Brilliant. 

[Saganite]

Totally agree, stunning.  That is definitely for framing and hanging on the wall....

[Crackabarrel]

1 hour ago, FenlandPaul said:

Absolute keeper than Aurora shot! Brilliant. 

 

55 minutes ago, Saganite said:

Totally agree, stunning.  That is definitely for framing and hanging on the wall....

Cheers guys, appreciate it.