Perseids meteor shower:

I'm not sure if this is one, no flashing breaks so guess it can't be a plane, did see quite a few while the camera was clicking away and previous and next image to this has nothing on it....what does everyone think...Meteor or fail?


Perseid Meteor by martyndt, on Flickr
 
And now another question, I merged 3 shots together of the ISS and get small trails on the stars, does anyone know a way of just merging the ISS trails onto a single photo so the stars don't trail?


ISS 13-08-13 by martyndt, on Flickr
 
FlyingShrapnel said:
woah that meteor must have been quite bright to leave a trial at ISO 200.... or does that not matter cos you have compensated with the larger aperture (2 stops bigger compared to F5.6, ISO 2 stops lower compared to ISO 800)
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Yep, that one was indeed very bright but those settings were also catching a few feint ones that my eyes never saw plus a few billion stars that I couldn't see. It's plenty of light with 25 secs @ f2.8 (alhough this is only my first week at chasing meteors so I'm not pretending to be techie about it!).

Incidentally, just after this shot I switched off the camera and was folding the tripod when a vastly bigger & brighter fireball went over, Murphy's Law bites again :(
 
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