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11/19/2002 07:32:31 AM · #26 |
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11/19/2002 07:38:12 AM · #27 |
Nice shot Seeker. I'm in Dallas, drove north to Murphy, sat out in the cold for almost an hour and a half. Saw quite a few meteors, maybe 50 or 60. They are fast and dim. Saw 4 or 5 bright ones but only got one photo and it was dimmer than yours.
I took some at F2 for 30 sec., some more at 20 sec., and some at 15 sec.
The longer exposures turned out a nice dark blue sky, bluer than the photo below. All were dark blue sky, just darker when longer. Even at 15 sec. didn't get a black background.
Will try to post my only good one when I get home tonite.
* This message has been edited by the author on 11/19/2002 10:35:47 AM.
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11/19/2002 08:06:52 AM · #28 |
| awesome picture that you posted. I took over 80 pictures at 15 seconds and caught very faint glimpses only on two. I don't know why they are so dim, cause there are a lot more stars in the sky in my pictures than I could see. Did see a huge green one streak across the sky earlier on my way home. Then my favorite one was right when we got to the place we were going to watch there was one that looked like it broke in half. |
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11/19/2002 08:20:24 AM · #29 |
Nice shot seeker - though isn't it sideways ? :)
I was out at 5.40 and saw quite a few. This was the best I got:
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11/19/2002 08:28:36 AM · #30 |
I'm so sad... It was so cloudy, even the moon was very dim :-(( I couldn't even spot a single star.
Congrats to Seeker and lionelm, for their great photojournalistic photos! :-) I would be interested in the exposure times. Just in case the weather is better in 33 years ;-) |
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11/19/2002 08:36:23 AM · #31 |
Btw, for the budding astronomical photographers - I think I read that there is a lunar eclipse this evening as well....
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11/19/2002 09:10:59 AM · #32 |
Originally posted by stephan:
I'm so sad... It was so cloudy, even the moon was very dim :-(( I couldn't even spot a single star.
Congrats to Seeker and lionelm, for their great photojournalistic photos! :-) I would be interested in the exposure times. Just in case the weather is better in 33 years ;-)
I did manual, 15 seconds (max on my s30) and opened at 2.8 (max on my s30). I would have liked to see like 5 or 10 at a time, some friends in maryland did see them. for me it was like one every 2 minutes. |
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11/19/2002 09:32:07 AM · #33 |
Leonid Meter Photos - 2001
Found this site to be very interesting because many of the photos have camera and exposure information in the description area.
linda
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11/19/2002 10:20:17 AM · #34 |
Glad to see some folks had luck last night! My neighbor and I drove around until after midnight last night in hopes of finding a remote enough spot to see this. We had a thin layer of clouds... thin enough to let the moon shine brightly through, but thick enough that we couldn't even see stars let alone the meteors. We kept driving to more remote spots hoping that city lights were to blame, but the clouds were just too heavy.
Well, let's see... in 2035 I'll be... um... carry the one... dead? |
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11/19/2002 10:36:13 AM · #35 |
Hubby and I were out on the golf course between 11:00 pm and 12:00 am in Florida. I saw plenty of stars but nothing shot by us at all. I was set up with my camera, tripod, and camcorder. I was disappointed. I had a half-hearted plan on repeating the entire thing at 5-5:30 but slept through it instead.
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11/19/2002 10:44:24 AM · #36 |
Rackafrackin monitors! Sorry, just bummed about my shot on the work monitor. Don't know how many of you can see it but the meteor is left of the Big Dipper in my shot, it really looks neat if you can see it, try turning your brightness WAY up. It looks GREAT on my LCD at home. Anyway, for those asking, the shutter time was 30 sec, max that the 707 can go. f2.0 and manually focused at infinity. I guess this would be a bad time to mention that I just went outside my house in a suburb of Dallas and set my tripod up to catch the shot. I've been trying for decades to get a meteor shot.
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11/19/2002 11:38:43 AM · #37 |
Maybe this version will work better on the darker monitors. Thanks goes to Gradbert for GIMPing it for me (I really, really need to start learning about curves in PS). If you look close you can see colors in the meteor trail and the Big Dipper on the right (I hope)
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11/19/2002 11:54:20 AM · #38 |
Originally posted by Seeker:
Maybe this version will work better on the darker monitors. Thanks goes to Gradbert for GIMPing it for me (I really, really need to start learning about curves in PS). If you look close you can see colors in the meteor trail and the Big Dipper on the right (I hope)
That's really nice. Nothing but overcast skies and snow in Ottawa. I took this shot last year, tho'-- 8 second exposure. The straight line is the International Space Station. Look above that and slightly to the right for the meteor. Is there info somewhere on what I could do to improve this image (e.g., GIMPing) ?
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11/19/2002 12:07:07 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by cykhansen:
Originally posted by Seeker:
[i]Maybe this version will work better on the darker monitors. Thanks goes to Gradbert for GIMPing it for me (I really, really need to start learning about curves in PS). If you look close you can see colors in the meteor trail and the Big Dipper on the right (I hope)
That's really nice. Nothing but overcast skies and snow in Ottawa. I took this shot last year, tho'-- 8 second exposure. The straight line is the International Space Station. Look above that and slightly to the right for the meteor. Is there info somewhere on what I could do to improve this image (e.g., GIMPing) ?
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11/22/2002 12:42:56 AM · #40 |
well looks like I did get a pic afterall...although it's not as good as seeker's, it is still one of those elusive meteors... this is a pic that's only cropped... no gimp, photoshop, or etc... I tried playing with it, but could not really do much that made a big difference in quality.. if anyone cares to try I would love to see what can be done...
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11/22/2002 01:07:12 AM · #41 |
| Hmmm. I don't see any images in the last 3 posts. I'm jealous. I did try going out to see the meteors at 5am. Had to drive out of the city b/c there was so much light in town that the sky just looked pink. We got far enough out to get a black sky (and outside of the rain), but there must have still been a lot of high clouds because we didn't even see the moon! At least my brother had a nice story to tell in science class the next day. How many sisters would drive an hour at 5am just to see (or not see) some shooting stars? |
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11/22/2002 01:11:44 AM · #42 |
Originally posted by Anachronite:
well looks like I did get a pic afterall...although it's not as good as seeker's, it is still one of those elusive meteors... this is a pic that's only cropped... no gimp, photoshop, or etc... I tried playing with it, but could not really do much that made a big difference in quality.. if anyone cares to try I would love to see what can be done...
OK, here's one quick application of a tone curve. It makes the BG a little grainier, but brings out detail in more the interesting elements. I'm sure more could be done with the specific color curves...
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