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11/14/2002 10:39:34 AM · #1 |
Someone just passed this on to me, and I figure it'd be cool if some of us were able to get shots of it. The link says it's supposed to be the largest meteor shower of the 21st century. Just wanted to give the heads-up. If anyone takes any pictures of it, be sure to follow up here!
//www.spacedaily.com/news/leonid-02b.html
Drew
P.S. -- I know this isn't a Q&A, but there really is no good forum for discussion like this. These damn administators have got to do something about that... |
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11/14/2002 10:58:57 AM · #2 |
If you want some help working out where/ how to shoot them, try
reading this article:
Leonids 2002 : Photo techniques |
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11/17/2002 08:14:14 PM · #3 |
Just wanted to bump this thread up again, because the leonids come nearer ;-) They pass earth on Tuesday moring at 4 a.m.
There is another good website dedicated to this event here: //www.space.com/leonids/. They also give good advice about photographing the meteor shower. The example photos display an exposure time of several minutes. Looks like it's time to play with the bulb exposure mode ;-)
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11/17/2002 08:29:17 PM · #4 |
The 1997 Leonids were awesome. Most of them had colour and were really bright. Unfortunately, it's snowing here and the sky won't clear up for a few days :( Ah well, maybe next year.
Originally posted by stephan:
Just wanted to bump this thread up again, because the leonids come nearer ;-) They pass earth on Tuesday moring at 4 a.m.
There is another good website dedicated to this event here: //www.space.com/leonids/. They also give good advice about photographing the meteor shower. The example photos display an exposure time of several minutes. Looks like it's time to play with the bulb exposure mode ;-)
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11/17/2002 08:48:22 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Jacko:
Ah well, maybe next year.
I guess not. I read somewhere that this year is the last year of a series where the leonids are near enough the earth to be seen. They won't come again for the next 33 years.
I'm not sure if I'll try to photograph them because it's really cold outside there at night! And the moon is almost full so the light probably will make most of the less bright stars disappear.
Anyway. If somebody will photograph them, please be sure to post your photos to this thread before selling them to the newspapers ;-).
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11/17/2002 09:03:50 PM · #6 |
You're partially right. It's a 33 year cycle when the peak, however they return every year around the 17 th and 18th of November. Somehow the media has been wishfully hoping that the next years would be the big year. I think it's in 1966 that they were "falling" at a rate of 1000 per minute! Just imagine hyper drive in Star Wars. I'm just recalling this from the top of my head; I had an interest in astronomy back then. I wish I would have been into photography too; I could have taken some really cool pics :)
Originally posted by stephan:
Originally posted by Jacko:
[i]Ah well, maybe next year.
I guess not. I read somewhere that this year is the last year of a series where the leonids are near enough the earth to be seen. They won't come again for the next 33 years.
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* This message has been edited by the author on 11/17/2002 9:03:24 PM.
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11/17/2002 09:11:53 PM · #7 |
| I remember "camping out" on a friend's deck around that time...I think figures like 1000/minute would have to have been world-wide, not within any one person's field of view. But there were at least several/minute, and that's quite a sight itself! |
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11/18/2002 04:29:18 PM · #8 |
Oooh, this weeks challenge is "Photojournalism"! Now isn't the leonid meteor shower a great opportunity? ;-) I hope the sky clears up real soon now!
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11/18/2002 05:51:15 PM · #9 |
| //aio.arc.nasa.gov/~leonid/estimator.html can help you see how many meteors are possible and at what time. 3,500 per hour in the countryside around Atlanta sounds like a lot to me! We're supposed to have clouds and possible rain tho. |
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11/18/2002 05:57:47 PM · #10 |
Nothing but clouds in Seattle :( But whoe knows, maybe it will clear up.....after I'm asleep.
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11/18/2002 08:12:03 PM · #11 |
I think I am going to try and get some shots of this...
however, everytime I have tried to take extended exposures (8 sec max on my camera, the pic ends up being tainted with lots of noise (little dots everywhere)... how can I avoid this? thanks |
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11/18/2002 08:21:49 PM · #12 |
I think that we have too much pollution and light around here to see much of anything. There should be 2-3 times as many as last year, but the nearly full moon will cancel it out. I really wish I were on some remote mountain tonight because I would love to watch this. Even my 15 second exposure limit might catch something. I took some star shots before and had to do some PS work afterward to get them to show up, but it wasn't too bad.
Anac, the only thing I know about noise is to set the ISO as low as you can. |
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11/18/2002 09:00:48 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Anachronite:
I think I am going to try and get some shots of this...
however, everytime I have tried to take extended exposures (8 sec max on my camera, the pic ends up being tainted with lots of noise (little dots everywhere)... how can I avoid this? thanks
I have had the same problem. Using the lowest ASA/ISO as possible will help with the noise.
* This message has been edited by the author on 11/18/2002 9:22:00 PM. |
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11/18/2002 09:21:38 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Anachronite:
I think I am going to try and get some shots of this...
however, everytime I have tried to take extended exposures (8 sec max on my camera, the pic ends up being tainted with lots of noise (little dots everywhere)... how can I avoid this? thanks
The one thing you can try doing is at the same time you are taking these
shots (so that the sensor is at the same temp and so the same noise shows up) take a picture at the exposure time you are using (8 secs) but have the lens covered up completely. This gives you a 'dark frame' with just the noise on it, and there are programs you can use to subtract one from the other. This lets you have a record of what the 'noise' is and you can take it away, as it should be pretty much constant for the same exposure/ temp settings.
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11/18/2002 09:23:23 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
The one thing you can try doing is at the same time you are taking these
shots (so that the sensor is at the same temp and so the same noise shows up) take a picture at the exposure time you are using (8 secs) but have the lens covered up completely. This gives you a 'dark frame' with just the noise on it, and there are programs you can use to subtract one from the other. This lets you have a record of what the 'noise' is and you can take it away, as it should be pretty much constant for the same exposure/ temp settings.
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hey thats a great idea for getting the noise out... I take it that is an illegal technique for DPC submissions?
* This message has been edited by the author on 11/18/2002 9:20:57 PM. |
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11/18/2002 09:33:13 PM · #16 |
The news folks said that if we head SouthEast then we might have a better chance of seeing something. Does anyone have any idea what kind of places would let you just go sit and look at the sky??? You can't exactly park on the side of the road in the middle of the night (I tried that and the cops came rather quickly).
No, that noise removal wouldn't be legal, but I guess a good meteor pic would qualify this week, huh? |
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11/18/2002 11:03:01 PM · #17 |
| Go out behind a school or in a playing field. Pick a town in the country and find the elemetary school or high school - Chances are other people will be there too, |
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11/18/2002 11:30:35 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by indigo997:
The news folks said that if we head SouthEast then we might have a better chance of seeing something. Does anyone have any idea what kind of places would let you just go sit and look at the sky??? You can't exactly park on the side of the road in the middle of the night (I tried that and the cops came rather quickly).
No, that noise removal wouldn't be legal, but I guess a good meteor pic would qualify this week, huh?
lol good? thats a pretty subjective term 'round here :oP
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11/19/2002 02:00:06 AM · #19 |
Went to bed at one 'o clock. My alarm went of every hour, checked the sky and went to bed again. Clouds, mist and light pollution spoiled the fun. I only saw the brightest stars of Orion at three, before mist took even that away again.
No luck in Holland. Hope you do better in the US/Canada.
It's 8.00 AM now, I am going to bed again. :-) |
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11/19/2002 04:14:50 AM · #20 |
| Same in Germany, clouds all the night. But we can try our luck in 33 years again. Would the admins please be so kind, to make up a fitting challenge again :-)? |
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11/19/2002 05:27:29 AM · #21 |
Cloudy here in Florida too. Not too too bad though. Stayed out 2 hours, saw about 20 or so.
Anyone have links to gallery shots of this years events that were more successful? |
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11/19/2002 06:00:23 AM · #22 |
Latest reports and photos at //www.spaceweather.com
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11/19/2002 07:00:01 AM · #23 |
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once and a while. . .
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11/19/2002 07:16:45 AM · #24 |
| wtg Seek.. at least ya got one.. I am right next door here in FTW... all of the good ones I saw were while I was driving out to the country.. lol once I got set up, no meteors... was kind of anti-climatic... I will check the pics when I get home from work to see if I got lucky, but I am not betting on it from what I saw... another guy at the highway exit I stopped at said I missed the peek at about 4:50 or so.. he said they were going good for 20 minutes... oh well.. maybe next time... in august the persaides (SP) meteor shower usually puts on a good show here in North Texas... |
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11/19/2002 07:31:52 AM · #25 |
I was on my balcony ... very cold .. set to infinite .. clicking, 15 s max shutter lag .. 15 seconds processings ... I did not know what to expect .... they are pretty fast !!
And guess what ? not very often in the area where you're looking at ... like they know what you're going to do .... wondering about some alien presence in those rocks ...
oh waow ... I got one ... look carefully in the upper right corner and I thought the balcony frame was not that bad. Did not tried to remove the noise that much.
Well .. hope I did not get a cold ... but I am happy I tried !!!!
Next time, in 60 years or whatever ... ;aybe I would just think about the picture and it would be taken ... but that would remove the fun right ?
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