Garden Perseid

[Martoon]

Bagged this Perseid capture whilst testing my new Samyang XP 14mm f/2.4 lens. I saw the meteor streak by and hoped that the camera was pointing in the right direction (I have often seen cracking Perseids shoot by just outside of my camera FOV ) .

Shot with a Canon 6D, ISO1600 f/3.2 15sec, class 5 Bortle.

 

[Gfamily]

1 hour ago, Martoon said:

Bagged this Perseid capture whilst testing my new Samyang XP 14mm f/2.4 lens. I saw the meteor streak by and hoped that the camera was pointing in the right direction (I have often seen cracking Perseids shoot by just outside of my camera FOV ) .

Shot with a Canon 6D, ISO1600 f/3.2 15sec, class 5 Bortle.

 

Very nice 'lucky' image.

I've not been able to get any successful images of meteors, but last year my wife and I were independently looking at M22 when a Perseid went very close by it. She was using binoculars, and I was using a small refractor at the other end of the terrace, so it was very strange when we both went "woah!" at the same time.

For both of us it was the first time we'd  observed a meteor through an eyepiece, so for it to be the same one was very uncanny.

Edited August 31, 2021 by Gfamily

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

That's a good one, nice capture.

Gfamily last year I jumped out my skin as an an actual fireball streaked across the fov of my 10x50s while looking for the Coathanger cluster! I put them down and frantically ran to the back of the garden to watch but it ducked behind the roof. ☹️

I'm surprised it wasn't reported even in the local paper because it looked like a reentering vehicle burning up and left a trail it seemed across the eastern sky. I remember my son looking at me through the kitchen window slightly worried and a bit confused at me waving my arms and pointing up! 

[happy-kat]

Is that from the night before last please @Martoon?

i caught something very similar on the allsky pointing NNE/E

Lovely capture

 

The one I have here was 2:45 am running north to south

Edited August 31, 2021 by happy-kat

[Martoon]

3 hours ago, Gfamily said:

Very nice 'lucky' image.

I've not been able to get any successful images of meteors, but last year my wife and I were independently looking at M22 when a Perseid went very close by it. She was using binoculars, and I was using a small refractor at the other end of the terrace, so it was very strange when we both went "woah!" at the same time.

For both of us it was the first time we'd  observed a meteor through an eyepiece, so for it to be the same one was very uncanny.

Thanks, It was very lucky indeed  considering that I was just tinkering with the lens for the most part 😀 

I would love to observe a meteor through binos or a refractor, that would be tremendous 

[Martoon]

57 minutes ago, happy-kat said:

Is that from the night before last please @Martoon?

i caught something very similar on the allsky pointing NNE/E

Lovely capture

 

The one I have here was 2:45 am running north to south

This was on the 12th of August, it took me ages to get around to posting I did see something similar the night before last as it happens at a similar time as I was packing my kit away

[Martoon]

2 hours ago, ScouseSpaceCadet said:

That's a good one, nice capture.

Gfamily last year I jumped out my skin as an an actual fireball streaked across the fov of my 10x50s while looking for the Coathanger cluster! I put them down and frantically ran to the back of the garden to watch but it ducked behind the roof. ☹️

I'm surprised it wasn't reported even in the local paper because it looked like a reentering vehicle burning up and left a trail it seemed across the eastern sky. I remember my son looking at me through the kitchen window slightly worried and a bit confused at me waving my arms and pointing up! 

Thank you  I have seen just one fireball over the last decade or so (I go out every year clouds permitting) it was absolutely exhilarating!

I knew that it was something special, I was in the deepest darkest part of the New Forest that I could get to at the time, and apparently alone..... the next moment I heard "whoops" and cheers from the darkness as a fire tipped plume light up the sky. Absolutely majestic. I am glad to hear that you have had the fortune to see such a rare beast 👍

[FenlandPaul]

Absolute belter!! 👌

[Pete Presland]

WOW, what acracker of a Meteor!  Very well captured, what a start for the new lens!