(meteorobs) Perseid photos

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Nice photos....thanks for sharing them with us!!

Mark Davis



Leo S wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A real mixed bag this year. In total I spent 11 days  in Cornwall (SW 
> UK) with the aim of catching a few Perseids and doing some general 
> photography. The weather was against us though, and I only managed to 
> spend two partially clear nights under the stars. The peak was a 
> washout. As usual I was totally disorganized, and made a whole heap of 
> basic errors which didn't help matters!
> 
> The one bit of good luck I got was on the post peak night, which I was 
> expecting to be sold wall to wall cloud, and because of this I decided 
> to stay at my accommodation rather than drive out on to the moors and 
> set up my gear. Just as the light was starting to fade I stepped outside 
> for a smoke, and noticed a nice cloud formation  in the partially clear 
> sky, so I rushed to get my camera.
> 
> After photographing this, I crossed over to the other side of a road, 
> where there was an entrance to someone's property, and as I stood there, 
> camera in hand a bight Perseid earth grazer suddenly appeared close to 
> the northern horizon just were I was looking, taking me completely by 
> surprise, as the sky was still very light - (perhaps only 20 minutes 
> since the sun was on the horizon)!
> 
> Although for an earthgrazer it was short, perhaps only 20 degrees in 
> length, it made up for it in brightness. It was probably somewhere 
> between -5 to -8 in magnitude (difficult to judge in a bright sky!), and 
> a golden-orange color. What was unusual was that it partially 
> fragmented, throwing off at least one bright "spark" along it's path. At 
> first I thought I may have seen a sporadic, possibly meteorite-dropping 
> fireball, but it soon became apparent that it was probably a Perseid.
> 
> Soon after that I went and got a second camera and tried to capture 
> some, but I didn't see anything anywhere near as impressive after that. 
> Mostly they were 0 mag or below, and in two nights I only saw perhaps 2 
> Persieds that were of negative magnitude, and even the fainter Perseids 
> seemed few and far between for me. Overall, a bit of a disappointing 
> campaign for me this year (compared to last year where I captured quite 
> a few negative magnitude Perseids with the cameras!).
> 
> Here are the photos:
> http://www.btinternet.com/%7El.stachowicz/pics/per08.htm
> 
> Clear skies,
> Leo
> 
> 
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