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You missed around 20 meteors on your count and maybe more :) I shot the Perseïds and they increased by the hour. I even saw a big one while it was already getting light. Waar hebben jullie gestaan dat jullie overal de horizon konden zien en uiteraard dat het zo donker was?

Beautiful vlog! So funny you got the excitement of everyone around when the aurora hit! Great spirit!

Very interesting vlog. I'm suprised by all the colourful meteor you caught while filming ! I time-lapsed that night with a camera pointing at the North star to make a circumpolar. Seeing the aurora on the screen of my camera was a nice surprise.

The intro was a little bit funny, like the starscaper squad and his lost brother (sorry Jeroen). Great night, clear skies, meteors and aurora 🎉

Big success with meteors and aurora, great !

Great Vlog Jeroen! I laughed seeing Martijn running like crazy to get the Aurora!! Lots of excitement that night. I managed a couple of hours before weather busted me but managed to see some meteors and light pillars too. I tried filming the night sky on my Canon6d with a prime lens at f/1.4 but failed miserably! Are you able to offer me any advice on what equipment (and technique) that is good for night video shots??

weer een super video Jeroen, Ik was op dat moment zelf in Zweden en daar was het nog beter te zien ondanks dat het daar wellicht iets minder donker was🙂

Great video! Ha ha, I said to myself "just wait" when I heard you say that it wasn´t that powerful 😅 I´m working on my own video but it´s hard to put together since I was just running around like a headless chicken not believing my eyes! Didn´t have time for b-roll. But that was on the night of 12-13 of August, which I suspect is your part two 🙂

I am so jealous of you having so much fun!! But I am happy for you. Keep making these videos, we love them!

Good to see you up and about. Those are some great images!

Wat gaaf Jeroen! (heb je nog steeds mijn oude Samyang 24 lens in gebruik?)

Nice Jeroen!

What a great video! ❤ I've been chasing aurora from the bedroom window, with a bit of luck. I'll save to try for the Perseids next year.

Awesome video, Jeroen - so rich and engaging visually and a great story of the night. So glad you all (nearly all of you!) caught the aurora too. Absolutely fantastic video - loved it.

Wow ! 😲 such a wonderful vlog 🙌🌌❤️

Great Vlog again Jeroen....just always a pleasure to watch and see how excited you get when being out at night. Also great to see a vid of that night since I wasn´t able to go and shoot...:)

Such a shame I had to leave early that night.. damn work 😅 Although I had a great night under the stars.

Woah :D this vlog was a complete new level... much more cinematic and some great b-roll. One can tell you put a lot of effort into it! And ofc the conditions and meteors - such a unique year this year.

Greetings…I’m hoping to shoot star trails tonight here in Pennsylvania in the US (August 22, 2024) and the moon is at waning 87% which will quite bright. If you said what your long exposure shutter speed was I missed it…I often shoot with a 30 second shutter speed but am not sure that’s what I need with the moon as bright as it is.

I photographed that evening, and while the perseids were particularly disappointing this year, the appearance of the aurora made it a memorable night!

Hi, wonderful tutorial! May I ask often for a landscape images like this, how much HA data you collect compare to your rgb data?

Thanks! I did it with the Perseids 2024 😉

Super tutorial ! Hartelijk bedankt hiervoor.

Good video and some good tips here. Ideally you need to rotate the meteors so that they are referenced against the same stars they appeared by at time of capture. It looks like plenty aren't coming from the radiant now. E.g. the star background changes over 2-3 hours of shooting.

Great interesting video. Learned something new today about measuring light pollution. How is the recovery going now? Nice to see that you have been out again 🌌

Great video! Great tips for me to start off some astrophotography ❤ liked and subscribed 😃👍

thanks for this info! this would be my first tracker - do you recommend it for that? is the alignment process difficult? the size is very appealing (and no counter-weight etc).

In winter the skies are definitely better, less moisture in atmosphere and more transparency. Saturday I was in Austria under a bortle 2 (21.93) rated sky at 2000m of altitude (drove more than 200km). It was amazing, the cygnus area was like tridimensional but unfortunately a bit too much moisture ruined the sky a little...magnifying the lights around, and condensing on all my lenses 😅 Also there was too much airplane...it was so annoying because in processing the intermittent plane lightswere mistaken by the stacking software for stars! 🫨

Thank you , very helpful!

Thank you for sharing. I used your methodology on my shoot from last night. Your teaching made the process of processing and particularly blending the meteors into one image very easy indeed.

Great videos always, Jeroen! I'm wondering if other than mercury/sodium lights would make differences. LED/neon lights known by its scattered lights on the atmosphere. Oftenly, a little amount of haze might ruin my shot due to lack of detail. What do you think?

Hard in europe to find something good, in hungary theres barely any REALLY dark places. I went 150km away to find 21.86 dark sky, it was amazing, i saw hundreds of meteorites and captured great images, also I have never seen the milky way like that, its truly astonishing. Althought I wouldve loved if there is a proper subject to capture too, like some castle or something, and its quite annoying everywhere I went there were hunters shooting, I even ran into one who just came to the site, he let me shoot for a while, then I went somewhere else, I was too loud for him(I was there first though, here in hungary hunters are really obnoxious...), anyways second site was just as bad, somebody shooting about, they all have thermal cameras, didn't want to get shot so I went away again, finally found a good location with a nice sunflower field and on the side of busy street so no way they shoot in that direction, only downside sometimes cars coming ruining my exposure. Otherwise good, i even gave up on shooting for a bit, just chill, laid on my back like in movies. Awesome experience. (Elon can suck a fat one with his Star Link sattelites, 6284 sattelites in orbit are Star Link out of 9900 total sattelites, crazy!, ruins my pictures and even naked eye view)

'Nothing is scientifically measured'? All 'observation' is human. I think you mean 'low variance' or reproducible. There is nothing 'unscientific' about the Bortle scale.

Thankyou my camera shooting perseid meteor ☄️ outside the house. And im on my bed. 😂

Great video

I intend to do only wide angle pictures is the laser enough to setup ?

Great vid! Thank you for the short and concise tips… perfect for a novice astrophotographer like myself. I’m a bit confused about your exposure times. I may have missed a beat when you were explaining the differences btwn your “nice and simple” and “maximum results” methods. Using a star tracker you said you’re 1-2 min exposures at F4 and ISO 800. Then you are advocating for shorter exposures at higher ISO to get brighter, longer meteors. Was that comment in reference back to your “nice and simple” method vs using a star tracker? I do not have a star tracker at this time so will be shooting the Perseids peak tonight without. Do you have a lesson or tutorial posted that shows how you adjust the angle of the meteors in post processing?

Very good tutorial, so instructive! Many thanks.

Literally just got my SQM meter yesterday! Excited to contribute to the Globe at Night project. I have 21.45 within a 45min drive so I feel pretty fortunate. further north is some VERY dark skies, excited to measure those areas.

Thank You for your willingness to share.. I'm feeling much better about heading out tonight and tomorrow night.

Weer een interessante video, moet dat artikel over die bortle schaal eens proberen te vinden om te lezen.

Nice!! The temperature of de SQM itself can interfere in the measuring. Also the atmosphere conditions and the area of the sky you are pointing... not the same pointing to de MW than any other spot around the zenit.

Bekende locatie, (voor mij dan) ga hier komende maandag de perseiden schieten, ben je er dan ook?

The milkyway is bright enough to affect the reading. So will any planets in the FOV. I have been creating a map on my website of SQM readings for my location at our website and found differences with the satellite based data

Amazing Video und i like the kind you can explain the thinks! Wow! Can you tell me where this nice rock formation exactly is? I was there two years ago and i did not see this nice formation.

Bortle4 huh...

I live in the Po Valley, north part of Italy, and there is a huge light pollution, the quality for the dark sky is terrible, i am forced to go to observe the sky from Apennino mountains with SQM 20.90/21.00. Also there are affected by the lights of the surrounded towns.

Very interesting, our light pollution here in southern England is really bad as well, the bortle scale for me says a 4/5 I'm sure it's more like a six.😢

Nicely done, mate. You made the subject really digestible and interesting. 👏 I guess sky conditions also massively impacts the results for both Bortle and SQM - a bit more moisture etc and we’ll get worse results from both.

crazy good details you guys manage to get out of that sky, awesome