Perseids Meteor Shower tonight

Genoma · 12 Aug 2015 at 07:29

The peak is tonight into tomorrow morning. Unfortunately I will be in London

Dark Locations for watching the show:
http://www.darkskydiscovery.org.uk/dark-sky-discovery-sites/map.html

Info from the beeb:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33850710

smr · 12 Aug 2015 at 11:06

Where's the nearest place to see the Milky Way from Leicestershire?

King4aDay · 12 Aug 2015 at 11:11

Bloody 90% cloud cover down here, was hoping to finally use my skytracker.

smr · 12 Aug 2015 at 11:22

is that a free app?

Catanonia · 12 Aug 2015 at 14:08

smr said:
Where's the nearest place to see the Milky Way from Leicestershire?

Up !!!

Vertigo · 12 Aug 2015 at 14:33

Catanonia said:
Up !!!

Lol, although technically he didn't ask where the best place to look was but the nearest place, to which the answer is Earth

mattyg · 12 Aug 2015 at 14:49

Myself and a mate are going from the north West over to Ennerdale water as that looks like the nearest dark place with some foreground interest.

Give the D810 and 14-24 2.8 a damn good workout

jasonsony735 · 12 Aug 2015 at 15:21

Can someone share what the best DSLR Options will be do capture this event ?

mattyg · 12 Aug 2015 at 15:33

It depends on lens and iso capabilities of your camera but full frame at 14mm @2.8 you should be able to get 30sec exposures without star trails. And just keep upping the iso until you get too much noise.

I'll be pushing 6400 to 12800

jasonsony735 · 12 Aug 2015 at 15:46

The widest lens I have is 24mm 2.8 - Should I use then and then up ISO ? to around 3200 - 6400 I'm thinking of heading up to Glastonbury Tor on the hill

Genoma · 12 Aug 2015 at 16:29

smr said:
Where's the nearest place to see the Milky Way from Leicestershire?

Click on the first link it has a map for the best places in the UK

smr · 12 Aug 2015 at 19:08

mattyg said:
It depends on lens and iso capabilities of your camera but full frame at 14mm @2.8 you should be able to get 30sec exposures without star trails. And just keep upping the iso until you get too much noise.

I'll be pushing 6400 to 12800

30 seconds will surely leave trails. with a 2.8 lens you should be able to get quicker exposures than that, bump the iso up to an acceptable level and good to go.

smr · 12 Aug 2015 at 19:11

Genoma said:
Click on the first link it has a map for the best places in the UK

yeah unfortuantely nothing near leicestershire :/ nearest is peterborough but i cba to travel that far, been chainsawing trees most of the day, knackered now!

jasonsony735 · 12 Aug 2015 at 19:18

smr said:
yeah unfortuantely nothing near leicestershire :/ nearest is peterborough but i cba to travel that far, been chainsawing trees most of the day, knackered now!

I wouldn't just go by that site , any where outside of the towns and city's in the open is going to be very dark ! and will let you capture the event.

smr · 12 Aug 2015 at 19:34

jasonsony735 said:
I wouldn't just go by that site , any where outside of the towns and city's in the open is going to be very dark ! and will let you capture the event.

oh yeah for the meteor shower tonight im going to a local park 5-10 mins away, nice and dark there away from any light pollution. for the milky way i'd have to travel to peterborough or so to see that.

Kei · 12 Aug 2015 at 20:46

mattyg said:
It depends on lens and iso capabilities of your camera but full frame at 14mm @2.8 you should be able to get 30sec exposures without star trails. And just keep upping the iso until you get too much noise.

I'll be pushing 6400 to 12800

Wouldn't bother going past 3200 in very dark conditions. From experience with my D810 it gets extremely noisy. Also agree with the above, you will get star trails evident from ~20s, though it's not all that noticeable if you downsize the images.

doodah · 12 Aug 2015 at 20:53

Might head to Putney Heath with mine and a 35mm 1.8. Can't be bothered lugging my tripod around, reckon my gorillapod will suffice? Worth using the onboard intervalometer?

EDIT - my interval timer is greyed out on my Nikon. Any ideas why? The time and date are set correctly.

EDIT - never mind, might help attaching the lens (thought you could access the menu without).

smr · 12 Aug 2015 at 21:57

Clear skies here woot

Going to go out soon just making space on some memory cards.

doodah · 12 Aug 2015 at 22:34

Just seen the ISS and a small meteor but the direction I need to face has a dual carriage way in front, doh.

Thaifood · 13 Aug 2015 at 11:54

Anyone get any decent pictures? All I got was clouds