Meteors

batteries are all charged and ready, got a pretty dark spot sorted but the clouds have covered me pretty well so i can only hope
 
I've been out 3 nights this week, only got one on camera. The most annoying thing is it's usually cloudy at night.

You can see it to the right of the top sail.


Chesterton Perseid by James Hastie, on Flickr

You need fairly high ISO to catch them, at least ISO 1000 but more is better, they are fast and not always that bright.

They will be around for a few days more, it's just the peak is this weekend.
 
I usually see one or two when I'm out shooting stars. Captured one the last time I was out a couple of weeks ago. Just to the left of the tree -


Day 153 by 42zx, on Flickr
 
Hate to say it but that looks too uniform to be a meteor, it could be a satellite passing over, I get quite a few of them in shots. How long was the exposure as there is no EXIF in your image.
 
Oh well, it could be, I did see meteors that night though :) I think it was 20 second exposure. It was quite close to a street lit road, hence orange tree.
 
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me think I need to have another try at taking photos of the stars. as the last few time it did work to well.
 
While having a look towards the Messier objects in the Aquila area last night, I saw a small meteor shoot across the sky.

While in awe, I looked back to Altair and saw a huge one burst across, straight above an aeroplane. Burst in, and a second later was gone. A rather good show by that piece of space rock. :D
 
Got some shots last night. Going to try processing today and see how it goes. Got a few satellites as well. But spent about an hour or two just sitting there pressing the button every 15 seconds to get a shot.

As a side point what are the chances of seeing the ISS? Because I saw a very fast moving satellite thing....

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So to shoot these you basically need to set the camera up, have a pretty high ISO as you are effectively not taking that long an exposure as far as a night shot goes, due to the speed the meteor moves across the sky.... Then you basically just wait until you see one and hit the shutter? Or do you just keep spamming the shutter in the hope that you capture one where the camera is aimed?

Not sure whether to give it a go tonight given that I'll be in London and light pollution won't do any favours.

King Damager - If you have an iOS device, there is an app called Star Walk that lets you point it at the sky and will show you exactly where things like the ISS are relative to your position. Might be available on other operating systems, I don't know.
 
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