anyone capture the Perseids meteor shower?

zenimagery · 08-13-2009, 02:14 AM

i hate it!!! i went outside last night and saw a meteor fly across the sky. i get setup, and start shooting. NOTHING! tonight i tried again after seeing about 4 shoot by. get setup. start shooting. NOTHING! bastard meteors playing with my head.

enough rant haha anyone get any shots? good or bad. i hope there's at least one person in here who got a shot

**Damn Brit** · 08-13-2009, 02:25 AM

Moved to Everything Else

*ytterbium* · 08-13-2009, 03:20 AM

Unfortunately i have only rain showers in here.

kerrowdown · 08-13-2009, 09:37 AM

Where abouts in the sky are they supposed to be, I understand that they around till the end of the week, is that correct, I'll go looking tonight.

*Ratmagiclady* · 08-13-2009, 09:42 AM

There hasn't been a chance, here. Rain and all. Not that I'm in a place where such things would photograph well, were I even inclined to do so, but I was hoping to see a few of the brighter ones.

zenimagery · 08-13-2009, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by kerrowdown

Where abouts in the sky are they supposed to be, I understand that they around till the end of the week, is that correct, I'll go looking tonight.

looking in the north-east area. i just look for the big bright star and go up a little more

i've seen a bunch flying around when i look directly north or east though. i'm going to try again tonight, third times the charm right?

*please do not look for a barn and wind turbine as this is most likely not a shot of your area :P

*tvfd911* · 08-13-2009, 11:23 AM

attempted it. Instead of capturing photos of them, the mosquitoes captured a quart of blood.

I drove a half hour to get away from town, but Milwaukee to the north, Chicago to the south, and too many "small" towns around made for a glowing sky which my kit lens couldn't pick up enough of a light difference to see them. Tried the FA50/1.4, which was fast enough, but trying to get it pointed at some burning space dirt was like trying to duck hunt through a chimney...

Oh the day I can move back "up north" Just have to figure out how to get out from under this house...

Wait, I just remembered I have a 35mm Sears around with sluggish apeture blades that basically serves as a body cap to a film body needing a CLA, looked at it, f.2.8. I might be in business to give it another attempt tonght...

Jester_rm · 08-13-2009, 11:49 AM

No, been overcast here two nights in a row, and looks like a third tonight as well.

Sounds like your experience with meteors is the same as mine with lightning. Great show until I actually start the exposure, then nothing. Ah well, such is photography.

zenimagery · 08-13-2009, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by tvfd911

attempted it. Instead of capturing photos of them, the mosquitoes captured a quart of blood.

hahaha i hear ya. i still have marks from them sh*t disturbers

Originally Posted by Jester_rm

No, been overcast here two nights in a row, and looks like a third tonight as well.

Sounds like your experience with meteors is the same as mine with lightning. Great show until I actually start the exposure, then nothing. Ah well, such is photography.

ya i was thinking that as well. you wait and shoot randomly, and pray you get lucky

Dom · 08-13-2009, 12:02 PM

Over here in Blighty it's been cloud cloud and more bloody cloud. So no I haven't really had a chance.

*wildlifephotog* · 08-13-2009, 01:02 PM

Here is a pretty good set of tips for DSLR users.
Meteor Photography Tips - Perseid Meteor Showers Astrophotography

krypticide · 08-13-2009, 02:50 PM

Tried my luck two nights ago, but while I saw about four or five brilliant meteors, didn't capture any on film. There was also significant light pollution from the Bay.

kerrowdown · 08-13-2009, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by zenimagery

looking in the north-east area. i just look for the big bright star and go up a little more i've seen a bunch flying around when i look directly north or east though. i'm going to try again tonight, third times the charm right?

*please do not look for a barn and wind turbine as this is most likely not a shot of your area :P

Thanks for that I'll go look, thanks again.

opiedog · 08-13-2009, 03:11 PM

clouds and drizzle here in raleigh, nc.
not a chance

*Nowhere Matt* · 08-13-2009, 03:24 PM

I will further pollute this thread with more talk and less jpegs by saying that I live in city limits and stepped out on the back deck just to see what I could see and was completely lucky enough to see a clearly defined and visible meteor streak nearly straight up going to the south last night.
I was rather encouraged and asked my wife and niece to step out for a few minutes and witness the event. Our view was more towards north and southwest and they were both really anxious to see something spectacular I suppose so they only watched for not more than five minutes, proclaiming that they both saw only one faint streak in that time. However we did see what I justified to be the International Space Station going from the southern horizon to the northern horizon in a straight line of course. I rushed down to check some online information and am fairly certain that is what we were seeing about an hour and a half after sunset.
Talk about the time I should have been taking pictures!