Was hoping for some Lyrids

[Ant]

But didn't get any

Took the family out and we watched Skylink go over... endlessly...  what a travesty to the night sky! 

Prior to last night, there was no dew at all. So last night took a risk of removing the dew shield, this enabled me to open the camera right up and increase the FOV by about 50-60%. Set the camera up 2 minutes, ISO 400... and off it went. 

Well, the dew rolled in at 00:30, damn it lol there was so much more moisture around last night, which clearly shows in the gradient in the image.

Got one frame with a meteor (lot Lyrid) and a satellite, and another startrail shot! There is always tonight. 

Hope others had more luck! 

Ant

 

[Craney]

nope ....  pretty much the same.  Had two cameras pointed away from the radiant, blatting away for about 4 hours.....

Looking at the individual frames, I got about 3.

Small bright trace at positional '10oclock' is the most obvious one to make it onto the composite image, but think this was a sporadic.   

I'll try again tonight.

 

Sean.

Edited April 22, 2020 by Craney

[Tomatobro]

Two and a half hours of 120 sec lights and lots of sat trails but  no meteors.

[Bagginsies]

Was a bit of a dampener. I saw about 6 or 7, but only caught one (right hand side of pic). I am thinking just getting one in any frame was a good result 🙂  Loving the star trails!

I did have what looked like a good frame with a really bright one, but turned out to be an iridium satellite as it was in 4 of the 13 second frames before as a faint line! Fingers crossed for the next one!

Edited April 22, 2020 by Bagginsies

[Debo]

All very disappointing, out of 400 images I managed to capture just 1/2 of one 🙁

Edited April 22, 2020 by Debo

[Davey-T]

Took a few hundred pic's for the second night running, none the first night, haven't looked at last nights yet but only saw a couple visually and not where the camera was pointing 😁

Dave

[Craney]

From my 900 frame  .....< !!!cough..ahem>   saturation bombing  of the North Celestial Polar region, I got one decent meteor.

.... and it appears to be a Sporadic.    The  Lyrid radiant would be middle -top--right in this photo.

 

[Ouroboros]

I’m glad I went to bed.  Doesn’t look like I missed much. I did look out for 15 mins or so without a sniff of a meteor. 

[maw lod qan]

I'm happy with any I get. I've done all nighters with my Canon taking 2000 images to get nothing.

But I tell myself I could have got an incredible fireball, or representatives from the Klingon Empire trying to track me down.

Last night I got 2 meteors out of a dozen I saw, both Lyrids and sporadic. 

Ten sec exp, ISO 1600 with a Canon SL1, 18mm.

 

[Ant]

Should I be increasing the ISO to say 1600, and dropping the exposure to 30s.

That would be about 900 frames, I did wonder if the exposures were too long for meteor work.

Looks like some of you guys got lucky

Ant

[Helen]

I got a couple (perhaps) on the meteor cam over like 4 hours - and I think nothing on the dslr runs.  I saw nothing visually either - meteors social distancing from Earth too???

Nice star trails though Ant!

Helen

 

[Davey-T]

Just sorted through 500 odd images and this is the pathetic result, skulking in the corner in clouds 😂

Dave

[Helen]

Nothing here in the half an hour after midnight 

[Bagginsies]

There is a guy on Instagram @nightskydan who caught a good one last night going through The Plough. I was out last night and saw it, but my camera was pointing lower at the trees 🤣