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Jason H.
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Reged: 11/23/07
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Loc: Florida
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Here's a meteor I caught with a camera early this morning (that's Sirius on the right)
http://setisociety.org/meteorat125IMG_0579.jpg
And here is the same meteor showing which way is was going with respect to Orion
http://setisociety.org/MeteorNearOrionIMG_0579.jpg
The time was close to the estimated peak time for the Orionids, but the direction of it makes me wonder if it was a transient (seemingly against the radiant.)
The way I caught it was by using the widest possible view on a Canon Powershot A590, shooting 6 second exposures (that was one shot out of hundreds). The camera was on a regular camera tripod (not tracking), ISO 1600. I clamped down the shoot button with an Irwin Quick-grip clamp while in the multi-shoot mode; that made it a mostly hands-off affair.
Having fun, Jason Higley
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Criterion RV-8 and RV-6 (8" & 6" '70's newtonians) and a bunch of other scopes.
My astro-images taken with point-n-shoot cameras , my SETI website: http://setisociety.org
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Nils_Lars
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Reged: 01/04/08
Posts: 3395
Loc: Santa Cruz Mountains , CA
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Cool capture , im never lucky enough to get these type of things.
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Erik
Orion Atlas Self Hypertuned (EQMOD)
Orion ED 80
Williams Optics VII reducer
Celestron 8" SCT
Orion Starshoot Autoguider
PHD guide
Canon 400D Hap Griffin Mod w/Baader filter
Astronomik clip-in LP filter and 12nm Ha
Stilleto CVF and Bahtinov mask
Tamron 75-300mm&28-80mm lenses
NexImage webcam
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Jason H.
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Reged: 11/23/07
Posts: 322
Loc: Florida
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Cool capture , im never lucky enough to get these type of things.
Thanks Erik, luck is one of the factors; other factors include purposefully sitting out all night long hoping to get a meteor and imaging and staring with my eyes at only one part of the sky (that way I knew exactly where in the frame to look, how it looked visually/naked-eye versus image, and when/which frame to look at (out of hundreds.) My brain was hurting by the middle of the session from exhaustion, after that it was more like meditative concentration. I could have been even luckier if I had caught one of the brighter ones center of frame, but I'm happy to have caught one at all after that long session.
Jason H.
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Criterion RV-8 and RV-6 (8" & 6" '70's newtonians) and a bunch of other scopes.
My astro-images taken with point-n-shoot cameras , my SETI website: http://setisociety.org
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s58y
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Reged: 12/12/04
Posts: 5494
Loc: Eastern NY
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Great catch.
I don't ever catching one in any of my DSO subexposures, even though I sometimes see a lot of them (by eye) while the camera is imaging.
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Hutech 30D, SBIG ST-402 autoguider
SV80S, TV102iis
Old camera lenses: 800mm f/5.6, 180mm f/3.4
AP900, Barndoor tracker
http://www.pbase.com/s58y
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