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 08/12/2007 08:38:57 PM · #26
From the length of the trail, at least 1 minute.
 08/12/2007 08:39:28 PM · #27
Beautiful night here tonight. Leaving in 20 min to observe and photograph perseids and other celestial objects.
 08/12/2007 09:04:46 PM · #28
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Beautiful night here tonight. Leaving in 20 min to observe and photograph perseids and other celestial objects.

Well, good luck with it.

I just spent 2 hours peeking through holes in the clouds and saw nothing.
 08/12/2007 09:20:21 PM · #29
I was looking foward to seeing this tonight. Its raining right now. I am setting the alarm clock for 1:00 to see if the skys clear up enough to see something.
 08/12/2007 09:36:03 PM · #30
Did anyone get some decent photos of this? I am basically on the equator - upside, it is dark all around me... really dark. Downside, do I still point East and shot or northeast or somewhere else?
 08/12/2007 11:10:20 PM · #31
You need to go to SpaceWeb, put in your coordinates, etc. and then look for Perseus, they come from around the top-left of it (they can come from anywhere, but ya know)

Looks like if you watch more N to NE, may see something.

Message edited by author 2007-08-12 23:15:19.
 08/13/2007 12:44:08 AM · #32
Originally posted by Chiqui:
Originally posted by marbo:
Just shot the International space station and shuttle along with 2 faint meteors :)


Just curious, what's the exposure info for that shot?

June


30 seconds, anymore and the stars start to trail.
 08/13/2007 01:14:09 AM · #33
I finally seen one streak across the sky tonight, Have been out a few times to look but it has been a bit hazy here lately cooling off tonight though and the sky is crystal clear. going out to look some more in a few min.
 08/13/2007 08:32:29 AM · #34
I got up an hour early today (2am) and went up into the mountains here north of LA before work. Set the remote timer for 30 / 30 second shots with the 10-22mm and tried a couple runs with different compositions. Had some funky clouds in parts of the shot though. Saw a few from small quick streaks to slow bright ones. I'll see later if I managed to get any in frame and I'll post here.
 08/13/2007 09:42:08 AM · #35
Well, I got up and went outside at 3:45am and took 27 shots by 5:00am - nothing. :/

I did see a few meteors, a couple of them fairly large, and a few small quick ones.

I covered the range of sky that I saw the meteors in, and was using my 10-20 at 10mm so I had pretty good coverage. Just didn't have any luck on timing I guess.

Congrats to those that managed to catch a few. :)
 08/13/2007 10:09:47 AM · #36
I went out around midnight last night. Drove around to find somewhere actually dark, sat and waited on my eyes adjusting.

Set up the camera, took a few long exposures, didn't see any meteors. Moved on, stopped somewhere else, tried again. Nothing.

Gave up and went home, parked my car in the drive, got out and saw a fantastic fireball streaking across the whole sky - could even make out differences in colour - was fantastic.

All enthused, I set up the camera in the drive and shot for another 20 minutes.

Nothing.

Someone, somewhere was laughing at me last night - but the one I did see was really cool.
 08/13/2007 11:06:52 AM · #37
The Perseids are a hoax.
 08/13/2007 11:57:02 AM · #38
I have to wait until Wed., when I'll be in rural Vermont. Will there be anything left by then? At least I'll get good star shots since the moon's not going to be up.
 08/13/2007 12:09:18 PM · #39
I was out from dusk until shortly after 2:00 am. It was alternately slightly hazy to nearly overcast, but we saw plenty of good meteors, and a few really nice ones. I shot about 270 30 second images. I did a quick run-through this morning and only saw meteors on 2 frames. (#$&*$@#)

I'll post'em in a few minutes, busy now...
08/13/2007 12:14:56 PM · #40
There was no sky last night.
 08/13/2007 12:54:26 PM · #41
03:55
I see others were as foolish as I was trying. Headed up through the mountains between Ramona & Escondido, took dozens of shots, figured it was a bust, as they only streaked through the sky once in a great while - some shower! I was expecting a shower, not an occasional "shooting star", but:
I caught a teeny tiny little trail I didn't even know about:



Wow. Ho hum. Shouldda' stayed in bed. I could have done better in PS - haha
At least I have pics of stars...
08/13/2007 01:00:46 PM · #42
Originally posted by Brad:
03:55
I see others were as foolish as I was trying. Headed up through the mountains between Ramona & Escondido, took dozens of shots, figured it was a bust, as they only streaked through the sky once in a great while - some shower! I was expecting a shower, not an occasional "shooting star", but:
I caught a teeny tiny little trail I didn't even know about:



Wow. Ho hum. Shouldda' stayed in bed. I could have done better in PS - haha
At least I have pics of stars...


Brad I took over a hundred shots and failed to get even a small scratch. I saw 12 and one outside the cameras view was spectacular.
 08/13/2007 01:02:56 PM · #43
I got one good one that I was quite happy with I wish.

08/13/2007 01:16:04 PM · #44
Here's the only one I've got so far that's worth a spit, and this one ain't worth a spit:



I did capture several more, but they're just too faint.

I'll post some of my blinking airplane trails later. They're prettier.
 08/13/2007 01:18:18 PM · #45
Originally posted by Gordon:
I got one good one that I was quite happy with I wish.

I could have done that too had my star-tracking tripod manual turning been good enough - haha:
08/13/2007 01:58:41 PM · #46
Well, it did clear up and I headed out. I took an assortment of pictures, which didn't turn out very well, but I did get a good show. I probably saw between 50-100 shooting stars with 5-10 being "big" in about 90 minutes from 12:30AM to 2:00AM.

I haven't looked at much on the pictures yet though.
 08/13/2007 03:02:09 PM · #47
I was out as well, was kind of anticlimatic. Counted 58 meteors of which 4 were really something to look at. I had both my D70s & D200 setup at differnt areas of the sky. 3 hours spent 200 photo's taken and only one shot that caught a barely visible meteor. Near the end of the shoot, I gave up on shooting meteors and decided to take a picture of the "Big Dipper" on the horizon above a farm house. And as I was evaluating the images of the "Big Dipper" shots I found a meteor on one of the images I was about to trash.

Can You see it?


If not, I've highlighted it..


Also, shooting both the D70s & the D200, I realized just how the D200 goes through the batteries. 3 hours of aproximately 110 images on each camera I went through two batteries on the D200 and the D70s didn't have to change, still showed a full charge when I was done.

Message edited by author 2007-08-13 15:02:52.
 08/13/2007 05:00:35 PM · #48
I spent 3 hours lying on my back on the top of Butser Hill north of Portsmouth. Took a load of pictures using both my 350D body and the 400D this is the best capture.

Meteor coming in from the right and two planes passing by.

Bob
 08/13/2007 09:18:58 PM · #49
Here's my contribution. Down there, bottom right. I got another one, but it's even fainter. I remember this one because it was so close to Orion, but doesn't show up well here.

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