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Lake Ontario Thunderstorm

On the night of August 14, 2015 a thunderstorm rolled thru and I decided to try my hand at lightning photography. This was my best result before the battery on my camera died on me. That night I learned two lessons; first, lower ISO and longer exposure would give a better less noisy shot; second, KEEP YOUR BATTERIES CHARGED!Thunderstorm over Lake Ontario

2015 Perseid Meteor Shower

On the Night between August 12-13 2013 me and my father ventured out to Mt. Horeb, ON near Omemee to witness this year's stellar Perseid meteor shower. The night started out with a few clouds, but at around 2:30am the clouds all dissipated as the shower's radiant near zenith and the showered peaked. WOW, what a sight, from faint little shooting stars to several fireballs, This years' shower did not disappoint. At one point we were seeing about one shooting star every 20 or so seconds. According to the International Meteor Organization, the rate was about 85 meteors per hour during the shower's peak. Open Roof Milky Way

2015 Perseid near Omemee ON

Milky Way over Lake Ontario

Milky Way over Lake Ontario Last night I decided to go for a walk before going to bed. Naturally I brought my camera along to take some pictures of the night sky over the lake. Even with the heavy haze and light pollution from both The Golden Horseshoe and Rochester,NY, I got some pleasing results.

Settings and Processing: 18mm f3.5 3min45sec total stacked from 15x 15sec at 1600ISO and 2 dark frames, stacked with DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2, processed in RawTherapee 4.2.238 and Gimp 2.8.