Perseid Meteors

[neelam]

Captured tonight with a Canon 1000d fitted with 15mm f/2.8 fisheye lens exposed for 20 seconds at Iso 400 on a fixed tripod at Lahore,Pakistan.

Took 400 shots resulting in 2 meteors

[Doug]

Neelam

Nice Capture mate , weather here cloudy as usual, well done this may be all we will see the way the weather is here:(

Doug

Essex

England

[LukeSkywatcher]

I took 100 images and got one Perseid. Too faint to see it really. I'll try find it.

[neelam]

thanks.

@luke sure

tonight as i was placing the camera clouds moved in.I decided to continue.just caught one faint one through the clouds.

hardly looks like a meteor from this view.

here is its crop

saw a satellite as dawn was breaking.

hopefully i will go for another run tonight if weather stays clear.

[neelam]

just finished the run.took around 400 images.caught only one meteor though but not bad,could have been none

enjoyed watching clouds come and go too tonight.

crop

stars playing hide and seek

nearing dawn

[Takahashi]

That last pic is excellent Neelam... a whole squadron of meteors, flying in formation!

[LukeSkywatcher]

Very nice set of images Neelam. I tried to find my single meteor image but it is so faint that i couldnt find the image. Hopefully i'll do better tonight. Clearing up very nicely here.

[fatwoul]

I took 100 images and got one Perseid. Too faint to see it really. I'll try find it.

Interestingly, I had the exact same success rate. I left my camera out doing 30 second exposures for 2 and a half hours, resulting in 300 photos, containing 3 faint meteors.

Did get a couple of whole-sky satellite trails, too, but they're not special.

[fatwoul]

I have never - NEVER - caught a single aircraft in any of my astrophotos, but I live under the approach of a small city airport. Maybe the flights don't run very late. Maybe I'll experience this more as winter approaches.

[LukeSkywatcher]

I got a few sats also. Funnily enough they were also too faint to really see. I was taking 5s exposures@18mm,ISO 1600. I got some nice star fields etc but meteors and satellites eluded the camera.

[fatwoul]

Mine were ISO 3200, so not a lot different. I'm wondering if my choice of lens was unwise. I'm using an 8mm circular fisheye at f/8 (like most lenses it's not at its best wide open, but seems to be very good at f/5.6 or f/8). It's a great lens for getting the whole sky into a single image, but does make any single feature in the sky extremely small. I suppose it's possible that more meteors are on the pictures, but are just too small to be easily spotted. Oh well. Lesson learned.

[ezza123]

Took 198 shots at 10 Secs ISO 1600 on my eos 500 - 18mm. out of the 10 -15 I saw this is the only one I caught!!! right at the start when it was still nice and bright! They were everywhere but where I thought they would be!!!

[LukeSkywatcher]

You even got M31 in that image Ezza.

[ezza123]

I didn't even realize! - i was so hell bent of looking for meteors! Thanks for pointing it out Paul - I will have to look at all the others now for it!

[LukeSkywatcher]

If you stack them, it will bring out M31 more. I had a faint fuzzy in a load of images i took the other night. I stacked them and discovered it was M31. I even got the double cluster in Perseus. You may have it also.

[fatwoul]

No need to start a new thread just for this lame effort:

[Deneb]

Fantastic images there Bro. Very Nice.

Nadeem.

[Llamanaut]

Just processing my 300 or so photos taken with 18-55mm at 18 wide open at f3.5 exposures varying between 10 seconds at ISO1600 and 10 minutes at ISO100... So far only looked through captures through lcd camera screen but of the 20 or so perseids i saw i dont think ive captured one... they appeared opposite to where the camera pointed... do you think they know?

[fatwoul]

Definitely. lol

[Herakles]

I think they do , we had four cameras pointing all ways last night . We all saw them appear where the camera was not pointing . The Perseids/Photo Gods were having a right ol' laff I bet.

Clear Skies

Pete

[neelam]

havent given up yet on perseids.got up before dawn.weather was cloudy so placed it in small shed in backyard for protection if rained though the lens was pointing out and 15mm lens is of more value then camera body

saw a huge meteor strike but since it was already dawn and with ISO 800 i was expecting nothing.it did appeared in the image as follows.compiled the rest images into a startrail pic.