michaelsacher

Thanks. How do you tell meteor from satellite? And what about upper right on 342, through the tree? Meteor or satellite (and why)?

Just to add here: upon further reflection, I thought the odd "meteors" could be an airplane with strobe lights flashing. Possible? In that case, I have a series of individual frames where the surroundings lit up in one frame but not the others. Why would that happen with an airplane? The three sequential frames are attached. Notice how 342 is brighter than the others. Michael

Hi everyone. I am new to this forum and new to digital photography. I tried taking some pictures of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower last night (first attempt at meteors). Worked OK. But something odd was happening. I set up interval shooting for about 90 minutes. Equipment and settings were as follows: Nikon D5300, lens - AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G, shutter speed of 10 seconds, ISO 640. Also tried shutter speed of 4 seconds and ISO of 3200. In both cases, when I review the individual frames in rapid succession, I see a meteor shoot by. But on each individual frame I see a series of repeating "dots" of 2 white, 1 red, for a number of cycles. I want to be prepared for the next meteor shower in August. What caused this and how can I avoid it? I should add that I did capture fainter meteors that, on individual frames, looked like a streak as I expected they would. See photo DSC_0186 as a "good" (better?) example and the other two show the repeating dots in question (atatched). It seems it may have something to do with the meteor intensity? Does that make sense? Thanks for the feedback! Cheers. Michael