My humble Perseid efforts

[Jonk]

I made the effort last night to go and at least attempt to see some Perseids, as well as catch them on camera if I could.

My strategy was simple, aim the camera at Cassiopeia, 25s exposure every 30 seconds until I got cold, bored or scared (it's dark and lonely on the South Downs at night!).

I saw about 20 meteors I would guess, between about 10.30 and 12.30 before the clouds rolled in, with the storm not far behind.

I managed to capture 2 that could be shared as photos (the are cropped), the rest of the frames went into a timelapse.

You can spot Cassiopiea and M31 fairly easily.

i also did a shot of Cygnus directly overhead, which isn't too shabby.

Enjoy.

Timelapse:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64466793@N08/20553931281

Cygnus:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64466793@N08/20359535918

Perseids:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64466793@N08/20521290746

https://www.flickr.com/photos/64466793@N08/20360825219

[davefrance]

Great set, well done.

[Scooot]

Love the time lapse, good stuff, bet you had fun.

[happy-kat]

Time lapse is great like that sense of spinning

[Davey-T]

Nicely done Jon, had the camera running for about an hour last night before it clouded over, saw a few captured 0, using 20mm lens 

Dave

[Jonk]

Cheers. I used a Samyang 14mm, saw a few, captured 2!

[happy-kat]

captured 17 aeroplanes on my 339 images of nowt! so 2 is fantastic :-)

[laudropb]

Very nice animations.

[Welrod50]

Nicely done

[Jonk]

Thanks chaps.

[bob-c]

well done mate, I also aimed at cassiopiea. took over 700 25 sec subs to get my pic.

                                                                                                                                        bob.