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Re: (meteorobs) one meteor (Houston Leonids)
You will never pick up the fainter meteors (mag 3 or less) with a
typical f/2 lens and 400-1000 speed film, even though you can easily see
them. The film picks up fainter stars, because they move so slowly over
the film, the faint light integrates and forms a usable image. Meteors
pass too swiftly to produce the same image density as an equivalent
magnitude star. A mag 2 meteor is about the faintest you can hope to
catch, and it takes one significantly brighter to yield a good,
publishable shot.
Mike
JWink38223@aol.com wrote:
>
> I realize that I don't have the most sophisticated and expensive camera setup,
> but I have checked star fields against a star atlas I have and they compare
> down to 7-8th magnitude stars.
> Apparently most of the meteors in most storms are less than the brightness of
> 7th to 8th magnitude stars?? The another possible problem with my setup is
> field of view. I think it's around 4 degrees from looking at star charts.
>
> Jerry
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