As the preamble tells it. I was reminded that the Perseids were going to be at maximum on the night of aug 12. So I gathered what gear I have and set out to try to record some of those quick light streaks.

And. Yeah. I did not record a single one.

But! instead, I did get to use the same cameras to record the unplanned Aurora Borealis that were going on right above my head.

If you’re wondering why I’m in a lot of these shots. The plan was to shoot the hero timelapse shots on my GH4 as it is better at timelapse-recording than my big BMPCC6KG2 camera. The GH4 can do full long exposures of several seconds. While the BlackMagic Camera can at most be pushed to 1/5 second exposures. So I set it up as I mention in my video on slow-rate recording, with the camera at Off Speed Recording at 5 fps. Shutter at 360 degrees and timelapse to only record every other frame. That way I get the maximum exposure of the camera while keeping a 180 degree effective shutter, with an effective fps of 2.5. So I rigged up a microphone and did claps to then do in camera narration.

But the 2.5 fps footage looked better at full 24 fps as I pivoted to capturing the lightshow instead of the shooting stars that I planned to film. And the ISO25600 setting, while noisy. Was surprisingly usable.

As usual. The noises you hear are produced and edited by yours truly. I still won’t call it music. But it’s something for the soundtrack side of things as I scrapped the whole idea of voice narration.