(meteorobs) Perseids photos on August 12/13 2015
Michel Vandeputte
michelvandeputte at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 19 03:21:24 EDT 2015
Thanks voor sharing your awesome report and pictures on the 2015 Perseids!
Looking forward to the 2016 event!
But before that; let's exercise on the major Geminids later this year ;-)
Kind regards,
Michel Vandeputte
> From: k.miskotte at upcmail.nl
> To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:42:04 +0200
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Perseids photos on August 12/13 2015
>
> Great photo results Pierre, as usual!
> Also thanks for the nice reports.
> Clear skies
> Koen
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> From: Pierre Martin
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 6:03 AM
> To: Meteor science and meteor observing
> Subject: (meteorobs) Perseids photos on August 12/13 2015
>
> Here’s the images that I took during the Perseids peak night at Balsam
> Provincial Park:
>
>
> 1) Composite image of 110 Perseids captured, using a Canon 5D at ISO1600, 20
> seconds exposures and a Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens (set at f/2.2). The camera was
> aimed towards the north and tracked this part of the sky all night. The
> brightest is a -4 Perseid. This meteor looks unusual because the camera
> shutter opened halfway through the meteor’s motion (capturing both the
> bright luminous phase as well as the glowing blue-green train that persisted
> for several seconds after it vanished). There is also a very faint greenish
> aurora above the trees mixed with thin clouds in the distance.
>
> https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-CvrvCsQ/A
>
>
> 2) Composite image of 99 Perseids captured, using a Canon 6D at ISO1600, 30
> seconds exposures and a Sigma Art-Series 35mm f/1.4 lens (set at f/2.2). A
> single 2.5 minutes exposure at ISO800, f/4 was done for the star field. The
> camera was aimed in the east towards the radiant and tracked the same part
> of the sky all night. The Great Andromeda Galaxy is visible to the right,
> M33 to the lower-right and the Double Cluster left of center. Several near
> head-on meteors were captured. Notice also the rather large radiant size
> (meteors don’t always line up to a precise point).
>
> https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-frGcTb3/A
>
>
> 3) Our road trip:
> https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-tZB3t5f/A
>
>
> 4) Our setup for the night (left: Pierre Martin, right: Raymond Dubois,
> taken by Shane Finnigan)
> https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-xKnNxnR/A
> https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-gThGKv5/A
> https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-wG8Js9X/A
>
> 5) Something we found along the way:
> https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-jNDfhdb/A
>
>
> Clear skies!
>
> Pierre Martin
> Ottawa, Ontario
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