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Wandered up to Castle Naze about 2am this morning, stayed for about an hour using the smartphone remote features of my Olympus E-M10. Some of the meteors were really quite spectacular - I actually said 'wow' out loud at one point ( don't recall ever doing that before).

Eventually got this -

https://www.flickr.com/photos/planetmarshall/20347266259/

The camera was set to a 30s exposure @F3.5, on the stock 14-42mm lens ( set at 14mm ). Wish I'd had a wider angle - think that will be my next purchase. Quite pleased with the result.

In reply to planetmarshall:

Excellent shot! What ISO please?

In reply to planetmarshall:

I went out with camera as well, wish I could have stayed out longer.
I have about 4 pictures with trails in them and plan to try and merge them into one picture tonight, but need to learn how to do that first.
They all followed the power lines. and all almost in exactly the same line.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/83246699@N00/20497439096/in/photostream/light...

In reply to Mikkel:

Nice

In reply to planetmarshall:

Didn't go out last night but on Tuesday night we bivvied out in the Dales and saw several meteors along with the Milky Way (about as clear as I've ever seen it). We also saw the ISS just after sunset. The sunrise was also decent with the crescent moon rising just ahead of the sun.

I'm not sure why but there seemed to be very little atmospheric dust around so there was little to no light pollution. There were only a couple of villages directly visible but normally you get some light pollution from towns out of direct sight like Skipton but there was none.

In reply to Mikkel:

despite really disliking pylons thats really nice, its good to have something in the foreground.

In reply to Glyno:

800. Looks like the EXIF data was missing from the original file - I've reuploaded.

In reply to Pesda potato:

I originally walked further into the field to avoid it, then decided that the pylon would actually make the picture a bit more interesting

In reply to planetmarshall:


thanks!

In reply to Mikkel:

Unfortunately those are the trails of a plane - zoom in and you can see the flashing lights!

In reply to planetmarshall:

Thats lovely Andrew.

I was out at stanage and was lucky enough to get two in a single 13 second exposure.
f/4.5 ISO 800, 8mm on a crop canon (slightly dodgy settings as I was set up for timelapse).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cr0rswjtzw6b8vx/IMG_2022.jpg?dl=0

In reply to Dan Arkle:


I assumed he was taking the piss, but actually I think not now. Poor bloke.

In reply to Philip:

I wasn't and dont feel poor about just a little silly.
Did no look very closely at it last night as i wanted to get to bed but have now i got a shot from a minute or two earlier which makes it even more obvious as there you can see the all the different coloured nav lights from plane spaced out evenly.

One thing i learned though is that star pictures taken here in the UK are rubbish with the amount of background light you have, made me want to be back in the middle of Australia

In reply to all:

I had both my cameras out last night – my film Pentax making 30-minute exposures on 400-speed film, and my Fujifilm X30 doing much shorter shots. For some reason the X30 can only do 30-second exposures at ISO 100 so had to make the best of it (it isn't really a camera for astrophotography!)

This is my best digital effort. Two meteors faintly visible.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alex_roddie/20336999419/in/dateposted-public/

In reply to planetmarshall:

We had a mega thunderstorm obscuring the sky so no meteors for me, however that did allow me a cracking lightning shot:-
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4e7tg93z65xwh67/_MSP5051fb.jpg?dl=0

Olympus OM-D, Samyang 7.5mm fisheye at F5.6, ISO 200

In reply to planetmarshall:
great shot. that looks like Andromeda galaxy to the right of the green end of the trail..

In reply to Dan Arkle:

Stunning pic, but what surprises me is that the two streaks are going in different directions.

I looked out of our attic window and saw 4 or 5 on both Tues and Weds, but they all seemed to be going in roughly parrallel lines - heading south-west.

Anyone care to explain in a language a numpty would understand !

In reply to malk:


Cheers - yes I thought that, think it's the first time I've seen it without a telescope.

In reply to Chris the Tall:
Basically what's happening is that the earth's orbit is going through the remnants of a comet tail. It's a bit like the lights in a tunnel they go flashing past on either side which if you trace them back appear to come from a single point. That point, the origin if you like, is called "the radiant". In the case of a meteor shower it's a bit random as to where in the sky a meteor appears and which way it is heading but it's just as likely to be four or five "heading in the same direction" as going off in different directions. Again if you traced the line of the meteors back, even with the "parallel" ones, they will originate from the same region of the sky.

In the current case the radiant is in the constellation of Perseus so the meteor shower is known as the Perseids.

In reply to planetmarshall:

Dan and Alex have captured it as well-pixelpeeptasic. I think one of Alex's is a sporadic- it doesn't seem to line up with the radiant..

In reply to planetmarshall:

A late addition to this thread, as I've just had a roll of XP2 back from the lab. This frame captured three meteors as well as some aircraft.
https://flic.kr/p/xAycLj

In reply to planetmarshall:

A couple of the Perseids from Belhaven outside Edinburgh, surprisingly clear given the proximity to the city -

https://www.facebook.com/chrisprescottadventure/photos/pb.753937971332276.-...

https://www.facebook.com/chrisprescottadventure/photos/pb.753937971332276.-...

In reply to planetmarshall:

one from Robin Hood's Stride:

https://flic.kr/p/xknpPw

In reply to nic mullin:

Cracking.

In reply to planetmarshall:

And one above An Teallach last week.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/readza/20568158440/in/photostream
(shame there was no moonlight to help)

In reply to Jon Read:

now thats nice, did you shoot in RAW and if so have you tried bringing out a little bit of details in the hills?

In reply to Mikkel:

I did and I have, but they'rejust too dark to do much with.