(meteorobs) Perseid photos from Wales, UK

[Jay Salsburg]

Hello Leo

 

DSLRs have a different Dynamic range from vision. When displaying digital images of rarified light on a Computer monitor, the combination of Digital capture and Digital display causes the image to shift its GAMUT away from normal perception. If you recorded these events using CAMERA RAW, extreme enhancements to the GAMUT may be made with programs like Adobe Lightroom. Lightroom is very good at amplifying presentation of an image that only the camera has captured and the eye and memory ignore and forget. This is how Scientists process images from telescopes and Space Probes to provide detail and perceptual enhancements in Digital images that would not be perceived otherwise.

 

From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of LEO STACHOWICZ
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 4:46 PM
To: Meteor science and meteor observing
Subject: (meteorobs) Perseid photos from Wales, UK

 

Hello all,

 

I managed to get a few shots of Perseids this year, which I have posted at this forum, along with a short account of this year's adventure:

 

http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/98656-perseids-active-july-17-august-24-max-0316hrs-12-august-zhr-60-100/page__st__40#entry869667

Quite a lot of cloud about, but even so it's probably the best Perseids I can remember, both in terms of visual observing, and photography.

One thing I am curious about (and perhaps others can comment on their own personal experience here), is that I don't remember seeing much color in any of the meteors I saw visually except perhaps a *very* slight green tinge to some of the brighter Perseids, yet the cameras produced colourful images. Perhaps I'm getting old (42) and am worse at detecting colour in meteors than I was when I was younger? I remember the Leonids of 2001 had vivid colours, and my photographs of that display also captured this. Any thoughts?

Clear skies,
Leo 

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