Perseid Meteor Shower: Dragged myself out of bed at 3:15 and watched the shower and it was a great show...no joy with pictures. anyone have any luck? You can see shot great shots here...

ggttc Loc: TN

Dragged myself out of bed at 3:15 and watched the shower and it was a great show...no joy with pictures.

anyone have any luck?

You can see shot great shots here along with camera info

http://spaceweather.com/

Algol Loc: Georgia

Here is a Perseid meteor that I took just a few hours ago. Photo taken at 2:36 AM. This photo has had no re-touching done to it. I have to contend with the glare from Atlanta so my sky is sort of washed out.

Perseid Meteor

Algol Loc: Georgia

Another Perseid this one taken at 3:03 AM.

Perseid Meteor

3Stripes Loc: Rocester, UK

I sat out in the garden for about 90 minutes last night from 2300z (BST) and only saw 3 Persids, 1 ISS and 2 planes! Gave up at that point as I had work this morning!!

Cas Loc: Maine

I missed it, cloud cover all weekend, bummer. But I got one a couple of weeks ago.

ggttc Loc: TN

Algol wrote:

Here is a Perseid meteor that I took just a few hours ago. Photo taken at 2:36 AM. This photo has had no re-touching done to it. I have to contend with the glare from Atlanta so my sky is sort of washed out.

Great shots...We sat out for about an hour and a half and saw 27...2 were spectacular...what seettings did you use?

gekko11 Loc: Las Cruces NM

here's one of mine

Raider Fan Loc: Lake County, IL.

Great shot!!

oldmalky Loc: West Midlands,England.

given a choice of staying in bed or taking photos i choose bed everytime.

gekko11 Loc: Las Cruces NM

oldmalky wrote:

given a choice of staying in bed or taking photos i choose bed everytime.

its a tough choice sometimes i have to force myself to get up and go, we drove out to a fairly desolate area stayed most of the night , perfect conditions untill moonrise.

oldmalky Loc: West Midlands,England.

Dont get me wrong you have taken a good photo there but i would only get up for something more substantial as there would be more chance of cloud than a clear sky.

Algol Loc: Georgia

Outstanding!!! I wish I had your dark secluded skies. I use to live in New Mexico (Raton) and sure do miss those pristine skies.

gekko11 wrote:

here's one of mine

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

I was considering getting back up to watch it (and experiment with pics) but after doing a split double shift with my part time job (10-2 and 4:30-9) than dinner and winding down, I didn't get to bed until almost midnight and I had to get up at 6:30 to do something at church before the service started, decided I need the sleep more than I needed pics. I'm sure there will be plenty of other meteor showers to shoot.

RMM Loc: Suburban New York

I went down to the town park at 3:30 this morning (the previous night was supposed to be covered with clouds). I was there for over an hour. I saw two, maybe three meteors, one very bright. The last one was just a flash out of the corner of my eye. Unfortunately, the camera missed everything. I set it up to take a serious of 30-second exposure every minute. I have 34 shots, no meteors. The park is open, so I could get plenty of sky, but I didn't realize how many lights they left on - the pool, play area, the driveway, the parking lot. I shot from a hill behind the baseball diamond.

Algol Loc: Georgia

planepics wrote:

I was considering getting back up to watch it (and experiment with pics) but after doing a split double shift with my part time job (10-2 and 4:30-9) than dinner and winding down, I didn't get to bed until almost midnight and I had to get up at 6:30 to do something at church before the service started, decided I need the sleep more than I needed pics. I'm sure there will be plenty of other meteor showers to shoot.

There are basically three meteor showers that are dependable and with a good rate. They are the Quadrantids during the first few days in January, the Perseids in August and the Geminids which will occur Dec. 13, 2012. The Quadrantids are brief and if you are on the wrong side of the planet when it hits you'll most likely miss it, The Perseids this year occurred during a waning moon and was a good shower. The Geminids will be our last chance at a decent shower with no moon to interfere with. Also the Geminids are a tad slower at 35 km per second as opposed to the Perseids at 75 km per second which should provide some interesting photos.