Northern Lights forcast

that won't be the northern lights but there is a meteor shower predicted for thursday night.
 
steunited said:
that won't be the northern lights but there is a meteor shower predicted for thursday night.
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And the weather, at least in the south of the UK, should be clear - because I'm stuck in bloody London that night.

If anybody wants to shoot a perseid or two -

  • Use your widest lens, set to infinity focus (manually - and don't rely on the scale on the lens, actually focus on something a very long way away).
  • Camera on a tripod with a remote release.
  • Find somewhere dark and point the camera roughly eastward anytime after around 23:00.
  • Use manual mode with ISO400 - ISO1600 (depending on how well your camera handles noise).
  • Set exposure to 30s and as wide an aperture as your lens allows. Take a single shot and review it - if the background light pollution is too much drop to 20s (or move somewhere darker). If the stars are big blobs - refocus.
  • If the test shot shows dark skies with visible stars (you may have to zoom in on the preview image) then use the remote to take a shot every 20-30s for a couple of hours.
  • Go to bed.
  • The next morning review all the images looking for streaks of light.
  • Even if you don't find any - load all the images into Startrails (from www.startrails.de) and make a composite image, or a video.
 
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