(meteorobs) Perseids success!!!!!!

[Pierre Martin]

Hi Koen and all,

It's great to hear that you had such a great night with the peak!   
I'm curious of your persistent train photos too.  Here's my photos  
from the morning of August 12.  All photos where I found meteors are  
stacked into the following 3 images.  These two were taken with Canon  
30D, 16-35mm lens (at 20mm f/2.8), ISO 640...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2760209479/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2761054148/sizes/o/

... and this one was done with Canon Rebel, 35mm lens f/2.0, ISO 800...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2760210067/sizes/o/

A few pics of our observing site, and the DSLR camera platform, after  
we woke up the morning after...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2759747269/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2759748019/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13845235@N03/2759747763/sizes/o/

Clear skies!
- Pierre




On 13-Aug-08, at 10:56 AM, Koen Miskotte wrote:

> Hi Pierre,
> Great story and congratulationas. I'm curious of your photo's.
> I'm just back from a small journey to the eastern parts of our  
> country (The
> Netherlands) at the public observatory Comos near the small village  
> Lattrop
> ( it lies about 200 meters of the Dutch/German border). After some  
> rain and
> thunder we had a clear sky between 22:30 and 04:20 UT. What a great  
> show the
> Perseids give! Many bright Perseids, amongst them a-4 , -5 and a  
> really
> brilliant -10 Perseid. It left a persistent train of 60 seconds  
> visible for
> the naked eye. Unfortunately this big meteor appeared just outside  
> the field
> of view of my Canon 40D, but I was fast enought to aim the camera  
> on the
> persistent  train and take many pictures of it.
> And during 13 images of 45 seconds the train is easely visisble.  
> Later I
> will try to make a movie of it.
> I think I did see 300-350 meteors this night. In think it is the best
> Perseid show since 1993 (outburst 11/12: ZHR 300) and 2004 (a small  
> outburst
> of weak meteors with a ZHR of 180-200, later that night many bright
> meteors).
> I also hope to catch some metors in the coming night!
> Best wishes, Koen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pierre Martin" <dob14.5 at sympatico.ca>
> To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:58 PM
> Subject: (meteorobs) Perseids success!!!!!!
>
>
>> Ivo Leupi and I had a terrific night of Perseids observing /
>> photography.  We travelled 2 hours west of Ottawa within a deep dark
>> area, near Bon Echo Park, where a clear hole was predicted to occur
>> around midnight.
>>
>> What a night!!!  The forecast lived up to expectation.  With wide-
>> open skies approaching 7th mag, the two of us must have totaled a few
>> hundreds of meteors until dawn.  It was quite a decent shower.  Best
>> were a couple of mag -4 to -5 fireballs that Ivo's camera captured
>> well.  I took notes of the clumping effects as well.  I still need to
>> review my photos to see if I've managed to capture anything.
>>
>> I'll listen to the tape, crunch some numbers and report Perseids in
>> more details tomorrow.  For now, I need a nap.  Might possibly head
>> to Moose Creek for a bit more meteor observing late tonight, if the
>> weather cooperates.
>>
>> - tired Pierre
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