While I was out shooting the Perseid meteor shower I realized that I hadn't spent a lot of time with Lori's D800E at night. What better place to put it through its paces than under the super-dark skies of the Great Basin in Central Nevada?
I had an extra tripod with me, so I decided to shoot a time-lapse sequence with it, and see what I could pick up as far as meteors.
I did a few test shots on my Nikkor 20mm lens. Using a "400 Rule" I wouldn't want to go over 20 seconds of exposure. It was a smoky night, so the sensor clearly did better with as much light as I could give it at that relatively short shutter speed under these even-darker-than-normal conditions, so I used f/1.8.
This is three exposures sky-stacked, captured while I was setting up one of the other cameras.
Unfortunately the clouds moved in quickly, so none of the cameras got much time actually capturing meteors, but as time permits I can throw together a time-lapse video from the sequence of shots.
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