Cameras at the ready! Incoming Meteor shower!!!! :D

Ok, I did get a few, but it's just a very "weak" trail of light. I seem to have caught a few satellites making their way across the sky though! :lol:

This is probably the best shot I got of an actual meteor:

F4, ISO400, 30 sec

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I seem to have a few "always blue" and "always red" pixels on my sensor! :eek:
 
kamion said:
Anybody caught any? I just spent about 40 minutes trying, but I don't think I managed to get any thing. :(
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Problem is the meteors only last for a short time compared to an exposure of 30secs or so :(
 
Just drove 20 miles and all I can see around here is cloud & rain :thumbsdown:
 
Not tried to photograph any but my 8 year old daughter has had something of an obsession about seeing a shooting star for years now. In fact only today I had one of her grillings about what it's like to see one.

It clouded over here at about 10 and all my thoughts of getting her up to tick this off her ambition list seemed to evaporate with the stars.

Then at just after 12, it cleared up and we sat and watched a few in few in front of the house and she wished on every one. She was sooooooooo thrilled and as a bonus, now I feel like superdad. :D:D

10 minutes later the clouds were back and I'm sat feeling very happy and smugly satisfied that it all worked out. :woot:
 
:lol: I didn't actually "see" one directly. I was kinda staring up and when it happened, it was usually off to a corner of my eye. There were a few rather bright ones, but I just didn't manage to look at them.
 
my 8 year old daughter has had something of an obsession about seeing a shooting star
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I had my 13 year old with me, complete with her own camera ! :lol:

Gutted that she didn't get to see a single one. I might let her have another late night & try again tomorrow if the weather is anything like ............
 
Aeroplane?

I just got back after and I think I may have caught one (have only had a quick glance over the shots so far) although it isn't much better than yesterdays one.:shrug: I only took about 12 shots tonight but that includes two 20 minute exposures that with noise reduction took over 40mins each:eek:. Last nights sortie definately helped.:woot:

What a horrible start though, I got all the way out into the countryside with my dad and discovered I had taken the QR plate off the tripod earlier that day. Que going back after half an hour and spending an hour searching for the darn thing, finally finding it my dad dropped me off again. So although he doesn't read this, thanks dad you saved me a couple of very long cycles! (This is after forgetting the remote yesterday.:embarrassed:)

Anyway enough about my failings, I'll see about posting a few pictures up in a bit.:)

EDIT: sorted the photos out now, there were only 8 in total.

Anyway this is the closest I got to one, can anyone tell me if this is actually a meteor not a satellite.:gag:

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And 3 more in this thread over in GPS: http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=338237#post338237
 
Well, the cloud cleared, saw quite a few but managed to miss every single one ! :bonk:

Giving up for tonight, anyone fancy a dawn shoot ? :D

Did get a nice Star Trek one though ! :D:lol:

 
I was just about to give up as the clouds had started to roll in!

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Had quite a few other near misses. VERY frustraiting. But I'm chuffed I got at least one :)
 
I got one on my second attempt then decided to photograph the light pollution evident from the surrounding towns (all 10-15miles+ away) from my viewpoint ontop of the mountain.

It was well worth going up the mountain as the sight of so many stars alone was worth it, I saw quite a lot of meteorites tonight well into the double figures.

My one and only meteorite.
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Some light pollution stuff from the viewpoint.
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Looks like there were some successes anyway. I reckon Jo and Mole got the best ones here. I love the light pollution ones and Mole you've got a meteor in the middle of the colour one too, did you notice? The b+w one is reminiscent of the photos of the London blitz during the war.

We had a fantastic show here and one huge one this morning light up the sky like a bolt of lightning. Don't know yet if or how many I managed to catch, I'll have to wait till Ali has processed them later today. If I have got one or two and I can get some decent scans out of him I'll post them later.
 
Didnt have my camera with me at my parents this weekend, but went and sat outside for a while anyway, saw quite a few and wish I had taken my camera now, never mind, next year :) Well done everyone else.
 
Great captures there Jojo and Mole. I might have a look tonight, maybe still be a few around? I cant belive I missed this thread :bang:
 
Wow! mole2k, that's a fantastic shot! :) Great capture!
 
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Best I got was that. 5 seconds, iso1600, f/2.8, 24mm. I left the camera on continuous shooting for a while and watched TV.

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That has more stars and 2 lines. They look so fake though. 2 thin lines.

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I was very impressed with how many stars I could capture from my back garden though.

Congrats mole and jojo, great shots there. mole's looks like the Enterprise burning up in ST3 ;)
 
Well done guys, some good successes from the looks of it.:thumbs:

We are going past dartmoor this evening so I am going to see if we can stop there for a while, should be a good spot to see a few more possibly (or at least i few more stars).:)
 
Wow, there's a couple of great captures there, well done guys. Just had another quick 'shufty' through my attempts and found that I did actually capture one, although I accidentally caught something else in the frame which simply ruined the whole shot :bonk::bonk:

 
Well I've got to go out tonight and do it all again because I got absolutely nothing last night. :bang: I'm pretty sure that the focus slipped while getting set up. I was using my EOS50E and 28-80 on manual focus. It has a rather sloppy focus ring anyway so whilst pointing it up at the sky it probably moved. BluTac or duct tape to the rescue tonight.

:lol::lol: at macker's shot. Myabe I'll see one of those tonight!
 
Haha, you should send that off to the BBC, they may be interested. Thats if the US government haven't raided your house already! :lol:
 
Well I'm glad that some of you have had some good luck capturing those elusive little critters

My luck wasn't so good and despite being out all night, didn't get a single one :(

Anyway, here's some light pollution

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Evilowl, I think you shoud console yourself with the fact that those shots are about 100 times more interesting than the meteors would have been. Especially the middle two, just stunning. :clap:
 
dazzajl said:
Evilowl, I think you shoud console yourself with the fact that those shots are about 100 times more interesting than the meteors would have been. Especially the middle two, just stunning. :clap:
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Just come in from 90 mins in my hot tub:lol:and seen 30ish in that time....it's still not completely dark up here (island off Skye) but the weather has been so crap for the last few days and this has definitely made up for it. Superb views of about 8 or do with dust trails, no light polution whatsoever, but too cold for shots..goodnight all!!
 
@ evilowl - Wow, no's 2 & 3 are simply stunning :thumbs::thumbs:
 
Nice shots evilowl :D

I was watching last night - saw several dozen meteors, some reaaallllyyy huge and impressive. Thoroughly enjoyed watching!
I also shot a coupla slide frames, one 3 1/2 hours, but I'm not really sure that I pointed it at the right bit of sky, and when I came out to close the shutter the blinkin' thing was covered in dew (front element being what bothered me here) :suspect:
 
George said:
Just come in from 90 mins in my hot tub:lol:and seen 30ish in that time....it's still not completely dark up here (island off Skye) but the weather has been so crap for the last few days and this has definitely made up for it. Superb views of about 8 or do with dust trails, no light polution whatsoever, but too cold for shots..goodnight all!!
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Haha you jammy git! :woot:. I have 2 friends that have just moved there, reckon it was the best thing they ever did! (A woodworker named Paul and his family - from the west mids, never know lol might have met them).
 
What surprised me was the number of planes going over :shrug:, managed to get 3-4 meteors in the end.

You can just see one bottom left-:

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dazzajl said:
Evilowl, I think you shoud console yourself with the fact that those shots are about 100 times more interesting than the meteors would have been. Especially the middle two, just stunning. :clap:
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Very kind, thanks :D
 
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