Perseid meteor shower?

[Shortsighted]

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[Charline]

Yep, I have already photographed an early one on August 5.

 https://charline.pixels.com/featured/perseid-meteor-shower-and-milky-way-charline-xia.html

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[Charline]

Mr. Shortsighted, thank you for your thoughtful comments.

The lens for the above photo was a Sigma 16mm, at 15 sec. It was a single frame.

I was going to post another Perseid's image from last night. Due to lack of sleep, will try to do it later.


https://charline.pixels.com/featured/stargazing-with-perseid-meteor-shower-charline-xia.html

Did anyone else have fun with the Perseids?

[Dinusaur]

Very nice indeed.

[Charline]

Thanks, Dinu.


This is what I photographed last night. Sigma 8-16mm, f5, at 20 sec.


https://charline.pixels.com/featured/astronomy-with-meteor-shower-charline-xia.html

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[Charline]

Yes, it is.

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[Charline]

Cool, so you were into deep sky objects.

Nowadays, my friends are using tracking devices and then stacking, the results are amazing. I am not able to handle heavy equipment so I can only envy.

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[Charline]

I tried to stack Neowise in DSS, but no matter what, I cannot get the blue gas tail.

I am not lazy, just sick sometimes lol.

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[Axeman]

I watch it every year -- there is an astronomy convention every year at that time hosted in the campsite behind my place so I'm always reminded. The first 10 years or so that we lived here, I'd go out and look and never see a thing......I was looking the wrong way....turns out the best place to spot them is on my deck....and if I go out at the right time, there are hundreds if not thousands of them...this year I was up at my cottage...the convention hasn't operated for the last 2 years....obvious reasons....anyway, I did get lucky up north and spotted a couple....the convention is called Starfest.

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