Draconid meteor shower

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So after almost bumping a two year old thread about this, decided to start a new one.

My daughter was given a leaflet from school about this as they're running a project on the night sky. Apparently tonight just after nightfall is the ideal time, so I'm going to find somewhere a little out of town and see if I can't get something.

Anyone else? Suggestions?

Long exposures and some patience obviously. Apparently they're expected to be around The Big Dipper.
 
Shoot it like a star trail would be my suggestion, series of 30 second exposures, at about f/4-5 with ISO set as high as your comfortable with while not blowing the image of course you should easily be able to achieve 1600 :thumbs:

In my signature is a full guide to star trails :thumbs: you should be to get all you info you need :)
 
Well, I'm without a shutter release cable so get anything substantial is probably out of the question (having two girls in tow probably restricts that anyway!).

Will order the RS-80 shortly. Returning a spare battery that I don't need (and I'm not convinced is genuine) which will cover the cost of that.
 
Number45 said:
Well, I'm without a shutter release cable so get anything substantial is probably out of the question (having two girls in tow probably restricts that anyway!).

Will order the RS-80 shortly. Returning a spare battery that I don't need (and I'm not convinced is genuine) which will cover the cost of that.
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If you sacrifice the first and last frame just use decent tape and tape the shutter button down once you've dialled in your exposure settings :D
 
markmullen said:
I always carry a spare but yes, it would work.
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I have about a dozen for my 5D3 bit gutted that I destroyed my £65 quid giga T trigger in my crash so have to replace that soon :(
 
Thanks, might give it a try if it looks like I might get something from the sky tonight.
 
Found a place that was nice and dark, but it was completely cloudy so spent some time there light painting with my daughters.

I then moved to another location back closer to town (to try getting some trails from the cars on the M3), at which point typically the cloud started to clear. Unfortunately the big dipper was on the wrong side of us so needed to aim the camera back across town to get it in shot - so quite a lot of light bled in to the shots.

It was really starting to clear towards the end, but it's a school night to had to get the girls home. Fun couple of hours nonetheless. :)
 
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