Perseid

A cropped & edited version of my shot on The Gallery, taken very early this morning.







C&C most welcome.

Any more Perseids images, anyone?


Roger.

Do you realise just how jealous that makes me?
WHat was your exposure time? The stars have started to trail, but the meteor is nice and sharp.

Looks like it was a nice bright meteor. Been out on so many meteor watches and never got a thing, camera was always pointing in the wrong direction. So very envious of your photo. Has to be one of the hardest (immense luck needed) to capture. Nice one!

I had a bash at it too

This is a 30 second exposure at f4 with a K5 and 24mm lens at iso 400. I've had to crop it quite a lot and it's a bit feint, but I'm pretty certain it is a Perseid - other 30 second exposures with sattelites in showed much longer trails....




Hope you don't mind me adding it to your post ?

Definitely a Perseid Lenny, its come from Perseus heading into Lyra (constellation with that bright star). Nicely done.

I'm going to give this another try tonight. Maximum has passed but there will still be a fair few about.

Thanks, folks!

This was with K5 + 18-55 @ 18.
ISO 800, 30secs. @ f7.1(!)

When you consider...
the meteor in the image is as bright as the stars.
The stars were exposed for 30secs., but the meteor was there & gone in, what?, 1 second.
Meteor 30x brighter the individual stars!

Luck, as you say, plays a big part. Do you stick with the same framing, in spite of meteors all around but not in shot or move & see them flying through where you've just been.......?

Good fun though, & even if you get no images, the sight of these things is glorious!

Roger.

(Pictorial comments more than welcome, L/B!)

Well done, Roger - that is a great shot.

I didn't attempt any photography but I did sit out in the garden from 12.30 to 1.30 a.m. last night. I was a bit disappointed after reading the hype, having seen only four very small streaks during that period. Was I there at the wrong time, or just unlucky, or just expecting too much - are they mostly too faint to see in the sky on the edge of a small town, despite a clear night and the majority of street lights switched off here after midnight?

Philip

Thanks Philip.

I'm afraid I only know what I saw last night!
I have heard that, notwithstanding any photography considerations, the way to maximise sightings is to lie on a reclining sun-bed!
As your eyes become acclimatised to the dark, you see more & more.

Hope this helps.....

Roger.

I saw a couple of streaks. One was quite bright. I may try again tonight, but the amount of hype about these things is way overblown IMO - It's just a thin line of light across a portion of sky for a split second. And while it might fun trying to photograph them the results aren't very exciting. Looks like a scratch on a 35mm negative scan to me

Bah Humbug!!!

I don't agree.

Roger.

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That is exactly what I did, Roger - fell asleep at about 1.30 - woke up very cold at about 2 a.m. wondering where I was

Philip

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Right I'm going out to try again. If I don't see a huge dinosaur killing Asteroid hurtling towards earth within 10 minutes I'm coming back in.

I had another go last night and didn't spot as many but I did have one spot of luck...

...I heard a plane going over, looked up and saw it was on the path that my "flat on its back" camera was pointing at so I tripped the shutter on a 30 second exposure and I was lucky enough to catch a Perseid almost crossing the planes trail