Meteor shower – Wednesday 12th August

[paul911]

Just a heads up, maybe worth some long exposures?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8193769.stm

[leightonjames]

Definitely giving this a go, watched it a few years ago and there wasnt a minute without a shooting start from about 9pm all the way through till 5 am. Haven't seen anything since but hoping tonight will be just as good!

[Elderly]

paul911 said:

Just a heads up,

Heads up ..... is there another way of seeing them?

[baz7175]

If we get some clear skies down here on Barra we'll give it a whirl...

[paul911]

No chance here though, thick blanket of white cloud cover. Fingers crossed for tomorrow then!

[jon-]

It's clear here

[Nurburgsingh]

leightonjames said:

Definitely giving this a go, watched it a few years ago and there wasnt a minute without a shooting start from about 9pm all the way through till 5 am. Haven't seen anything since but hoping tonight will be just as good!

tonite as well as tomorrow??? today forcast is better then tomorrows for me

[4hero]

jon- said:

It's clear here

Cloudy here Thanks for the reminder though Paul!

[oobster]

4hero said:

jon- said:

It's clear here

Cloudy here Thanks for the reminder though Paul!

Should you not be force-feeding your Mrs some extra-hot curry about now?

[4hero]

oobster said:

4hero said:

jon- said:

It's clear here

Cloudy here Thanks for the reminder though Paul!

Should you not be force-feeding your Mrs some extra-hot curry about now?

Tried that Andy, still no joy. Tried a rather exciting drive over the Bathgate hills, still no joy. Any other ideas to make the baby pop out?

[jon-]

Sex?

[Ricepilot]

Thanks for the heads up.

I'd have missed it otherwise!

Here's one I took during last years event.

[Norbury90]

BBC page isn't working, can someone tell me what time/where I should be looking?

[paul911]

Norbury90 said:

BBC page isn't working, can someone tell me what time/where I should be looking?

Link still works for me mate. Its Tuesday (11th) & Wednesday (12th) - Wednesday being the most prolific for pics. Another link at http://iya2009.com/perseid-meteor-shower-peaks-on-...

[TheEnd]

Just been out watching in b'ham for 20 mins and saw two, one classic fast flash, and a slow brightening then dimming to nothing one burning up.

Pretty slow, but if you've never seen one, you'll have some chance tonight if clear, and fingers crossed for tomorrow

[Norbury90]

It was raining in the end

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

[leightonjames]

Went and sat in a field for 3 hours and saw a few but it was a case of, hmm lets point the camera in that direction, turn around and what do I see, a fecking shooting star!

Complete pain this game but its definitely more luck than judgement, unless your a proper anorak I suppose,

Still quite exciting though, it feels like you could potentially get an amazing picture [:

Roll on tomorrow!

ETA - Did see about 6 or 7 though [:

Also, whilst im here. Is it just me or when on bulb mode does it take an eternity to buffer so you can take the next image? I thought my camera had borked!

Edited by leightonjames on Wednesday 12th August 00:37

[rasputin]

leightonjames said:

Also, whilst im here. Is it just me or when on bulb mode does it take an eternity to buffer so you can take the next image? I thought my camera had borked!

Long exposure noise reduction.

It takes a "dark" (shutter closed) exposure for the same length of time, to see where the hot pixels turn up. Then subtracts those from original shot.

Effective, but annoying!

Cloudy here - sky looks dark enough, but with long exposure you can see it's all clouds with only a couple of very small gaps

Edited by rasputin on Wednesday 12th August 00:48

[leightonjames]

rasputin said:

leightonjames said:

Also, whilst im here. Is it just me or when on bulb mode does it take an eternity to buffer so you can take the next image? I thought my camera had borked!

Long exposure noise reduction.

It takes a "dark" (shutter closed) exposure for the same length of time, to see where the hot pixels turn up. Then subtracts those from original shot.

Effective, but annoying!

Cloudy here - sky looks dark enough, but with long exposure you can see it's all clouds with only a couple of very small gaps

Edited by rasputin on Wednesday 12th August 00:48

Craap!!! I had a couple of good uns and ended up turning the camera off and the battery to reset it!

Cheers for that info though!

[Nurburgsingh]

The weather syas that it'll be clear here from about 10pm so I'm looking foward to seeing this...

its my forst time so...Any suggestions on camera settings?

EOS450D with the boggo 18-55mm lens.