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Photography · by Aisha Jacobs · 2026-10-21

Shooting the Orionids tonight — what's your astro setup?

Meteor shower peaks tonight and I'm heading out. Planning a Sony A7 III with a 20mm f/1.8 on a tripod, intervalometer running all night. Anything I'm forgetting? Share your settings if you've had luck with meteors

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Noé Petit · 12 likes

ISO 3200, f/1.8, 15 sec. use the 500 rule or npf for stars to stay sharp

Pixel Coder · 11 likes

npf is more accurate on high megapixel sensors

An Pham · 8 likes

lens heater or hand warmers rubber banded to the lens. dew will kill your session at 2am

Kabir Khan · 5 likes

hand warmers hack is so cheap and works great

Nour Ali · 1 likes

learned this the hard way, 300 blurry frames

Maya Williams · 6 likes

spare batteries in your inside pocket, cold drains them fast

Mango Sparrow · 0 likes

this. keep em warm against your body

Jack Taylor · 3 likes

i'll be shooting with my phone in night mode and calling it art

Piotr Zieliński · 13 likes

phones are honestly not bad now. pixel astro mode is legit

Ethan Brooks · 9 likes

art is art

Felix Weber · 0 likes

point about 45 degrees away from the radiant, you get longer streaks

Rapid Otter · 10 likes

didnt know that, thanks

Omar Hassan · 0 likes

manual focus on a bright star with live view magnified, then tape the focus ring

Paolo Garcia · 3 likes

gaffer tape is an astro photographers best friend

Marco Conti · 0 likes

stack the frames with meteors onto one background later, looks amazing

Chloe Davis · 1 likes

starry landscapes does this well, or just photoshop layers