Perseid Meteor 11th August 2013

[ejwwest]

There was a lot of light cloud making long exposures impossible, but I caught this one on camera. I saw it myself and it was very bright.

Perseid Meteor by ejwwest, on Flickr

[emadmoussa]

That's cool! Somebody finally managed to catch something

[Stargazer33]

Well done! I was out for about an hour and a half last night and saw about twenty. Four of them were very bright. One in particular. I was also taking 15" and 30" exposures. eighty nine in all. I got three aircraft, two satellites and NO meteors!!!

[ejwwest]

Well done! I was out for about an hour and a half last night and saw about twenty. Four of them were very bright. One in particular. I was also taking 15" and 30" exposures. eighty nine in all. I got three aircraft, two satellites and NO meteors!!!

I set mine up to do some 3 minute exposures at ISO 400 (tricky tradeoff between picking up meteors and too much light pollution but in the end it was the thin cloud that made it too difficult). I actually saw this meteor (probably about mag -4 and showed structure in the track that the photo doesn't show) and stopped the photo immediately after.

Then my cheapo remote controller stopped working around the time more cloud appeared so gave up after I saw and photographed one more bright meteor (also up on Flickr)!

[lardy]

Caught something on camera before the clouds rolled in, 60 sec at ASA200. And saw a very bright meteor NE quite low which seemed to break up .. about 10pm Very impressive sight.

Regards

Mark

[ejwwest]

Here's a shot from tonight:

_MG_7574.CR2 by ejwwest, on Flickr

[peter shah]

nicely captured

[ejwwest]

Cropped version of the above photo:

Perseid.jpg by ejwwest, on Flickr