meteors showers tonight and tomorrow night

willbaroo said:
You got some dust bunnys I think...;)

Nah serious, good effort. Atleast you had no cloud....
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cheers, got a lot of them just need to get them photoshoped but need to get to sleep got work in the morning.

Michael
 
hollis_f said:
Now why didn't I think of that? I know, I'll blame 3.5 hours sleep last night and staying awake now trying to blow the clouds away.

Thanks.
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I wasn't aware of it, till I posted my first one, warts and all, from last night on an Astro forum and got told about it... 20 minutes later, no planes :D
 
steunited said:
how do you set the camera to do longer exposures.
i can only seem to set it to a maximum of 30 seconds.
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You need to set it to bulb then use a remote release! You can't do it on camera or via usb ....:)

Why not take multiple 30 secs shots??
 
hollis_f said:
Set camera up to do 30s exposures from midnight to 2am. No clouds, but the Moon was a b****r. Only caught one meteor, and it wasn't a Perseid (direction was wrong). Saw a couple of real bright ones, but they were all too close to the Moon, away from where the camera was pointing.

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Still, all those images did give me the material for my first ever startrail pic.

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lovely mate - really nice.

how did you set up for timed exposures - did you set it up with your laptop? is it with Canons own software you used?

thanks in advance
 
Splog said:
You need to set it to bulb then use a remote release! You can't do it on camera or via usb ....:)

Why not take multiple 30 secs shots??
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uh you can press and hold it but not recommended as you will experience some camera shake best go with cable release and you can do it tethered
 
Just Dave said:
uh you can press and hold it but not recommended as you will experience some camera shake best go with cable release and you can do it tethered
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Isn't that what I said.....:thinking:
 
big pimp said:
lovely mate - really nice.
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Thanks

big pimp said:
how did you set up for timed exposures - did you set it up with your laptop? is it with Canons own software you used?
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I used an Aputure remote timer - similar to Canon's TC-80N3 but about one-third the cost from Ebay. But with the settings I used an ordinary remote shutter release (with a locking button) would have done just as well - and you can get them off Ebay for peanuts.
 
hollis_f said:
Thanks



I used an Aputure remote timer - similar to Canon's TC-80N3 but about one-third the cost from Ebay. But with the settings I used an ordinary remote shutter release (with a locking button) would have done just as well - and you can get them off Ebay for peanuts.
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thanks very much for your help there mate
 
Don't know about meteor showers, but I did hear that for those who missed the last eclipse of the sun Pavoriti, the opera singer, offered to hang glide infront of the sun to cause the same effect.:bonk::bonk::bat::bang::nono::nono:

Realspeed
 
Talk about off subject....

...As Dave said using the EOS Camera Utility on the laptop with USB will allow you to open the shutter in bulb...

There is better software out there for that sort of stuff though!

DSLR Remote Pro for example...
 
Just Dave said:
Tethered and use eos utility remote capture
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OK, thanks Dave! I stand corrected, I never realised that EOS utility could allow exposures > 30 seconds :bonk:
 
willbaroo said:
You got some dust bunnys I think...;)
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ok, someone let me know what a dust bunny is?

Would my missus like one? She loves dusting and her bunny......;):naughty:
 
BTW.... Well done everyone who got a clear sky and captures over the last couple of nights (i now have another exposure goal to play round with....;))
 
ok folks here is my shot (s) from last night!
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The sky is completely clear tonight =[.

I don't have a tripod sadly so can't get any star pics, tried hand-held (Or should have just left the lens cap on really). But my god the moon was bright, drived around for like 10 minutes trying to find a good spot, but it was so low there was way too much in the way and couldn't get a good picture of it.
 
My camera is just out on the patio as we speak - got it running 30sec exposures at f/11 and ISO800...

Lets hope the stacker pics something up...:lol:
 
Well, last night I set my camera up for 15second exposures, f/6.3 and ISO 1250.

almost 300 exposures later, I get this. It was a little too light for the first 90 or so exposures, so this is a composite of the remaining 210.

It's my third night out with the camera trying to get the ruddy things in frame, fighting a very hazy atmosphere and lots of light polution from the airport and Jerez town - but I managed to capture 2 of the little blighters last night :D

Without further ado (click photo to jump to Flickr, and higher res):



C&C very welcome :D

Mike out.
 
Michael, nice start to some trails :thumbs:

Will, why F11 ? Everything out there is at infinity, and you're severely throttling not a lot of light in the first place.

Well caught Mike, they've come out well. Nice trails too.
 
jgs001 said:
Michael, nice start to some trails :thumbs:

Will, why F11 ? Everything out there is at infinity, and you're severely throttling not a lot of light in the first place.

Well caught Mike, they've come out well. Nice trails too.
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**** - just realised...b****r....

Ok so thats why I got b****r all.

Ok so I will try again tonight...hahaha don't I feel stooopid!
 
cloudy in brum still! thought the peak had passed now so gave up looking
 
Aye, thanks chaps. I think I'll leave it shooting for another 2-hour run tonight and see what becomes of it :) The little blighters are supposed to be here for a day or so yet. My thoughts go out to all those who've been plagued by cloud cover - 's just not fair sometimes.
 
Mike it's quite normal when there is an interesting astronomical event taking place. It's the likes of those who went to Chiba for the recent total ecclipse that I feel for more, clouds ruined the view.
 
Will, it's easy enough to do. I got into photography from astronomy do I tend to work the other way. Setting the aperture as wide as possible to gather as much light as possible. It works ok with the kit lens but not the nifty fifty. I also struggle at times when I forget about dof.
 
I managed to snap a handful of Perseids over the three nights I was out at it.
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Looks a bit better big and on black

Standard 18-55 EF-s kit lens, f3.5, ISO400, 25seconds.

I was using (for the first time) the canon remote control software to do tethered shooting which was something of an exercise in frustration. I got it working well enough in the end though to be able to more or less do what I want but it's fairly rudimentary.
 
Tomorrow 18th August, at 4-45am we will be able to see a crescent moon and to the above right of it Venus will be visible as a very bright star Clicky Linky to TP Thread

Venus
Venus is rising about three hours before the Sun,
and by dawn it shines a hand’s-breadth above the eastern
horizon. Although it is low in the twilight sky, the
“Morning Star” is so bright that it can be picked up easily,
in clear conditions.
On the morning of Tuesday August 18th, the
waning Moon will appear close to the lower left of Venus
the two objects should fit into the same field of view in a
pair of binoculars. so we will be able to photograph them also
 
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