Perseids Meteor Shower tonight

[mattyg]

Got back at 6:30 this morning. Knackered after a 23 hour day. I'll try and post up a couple of shots later.

 

[smr]

Meh, I saw about 20 of them... nice and clear skies mainly,

Didn't manage to capture any though.

IMG_7945 by Joel Spencer, on Flickr

IMG_7934 by Joel Spencer, on Flickr

Pretty sure this is a plane trail

IMG_7937 by Joel Spencer, on Flickr

IMG_7983 by Joel Spencer, on Flickr

 

[Genoma]

I was in London with no car How long did it take you to see 20?

 

[jasonsony735]

This is one I got last night with a shooting star in Glastonbury on the Tor at 23:00 at night with clear skys.

Glastonbury Tor by Jason Askme, on Flickr

 

[mattyg]

Ennerdale Water MW

 

[Rroff]

Spent about an hour around 11pm keeping half an eye on the skies while doing work in the conservatory and saw a grand total of 1 (which was quite a nice one) - might have been the odd one I missed/were too faint to see without paying full attention.

 

[smr]

I was in London with no car How long did it take you to see 20?

Got to bradgate park around 11. Left around 2.

 

[Smeghead]

Spoiler

https://flic.kr/p/xiFXw8

Ennerdale Water MW

That's a lovely photo.

 

[JDR82]

I got lucky after taking an image which I though had a few meteor trails in it but were actually just artificial trails e.g. satellites.

Had another go and got the image below which has both a meteor and satellite showing the difference between how the two look.

Perseid Meteor Shower

The Meteor starts dim, brightens then dims again, whereas at the bottom of the image what is most likely a satellite is just a steady dim trail.

I kind of have an interest now in taking some night shots somewhere truly dark as opposed tot he above which was just down behind my house.

 

[D.P.]

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.

Dar trails are a function of focal length,,and 14mm is damn wide on FF.