Who is shooting the Perseid meteors and what location will you be? This has been a challenge for me in the past but it looks good for me this year. The night sky has been cloud free -...

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

This has been a challenge for me in the past but it looks good for me this year. The night sky has been cloud free - I plan on going east on CA Hwy 88 to near Carson Pass - about 8,500 ft and miles from any light what so ever- great eastern view and lots of safe parking - rest rooms close by- LOL .

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TreborLow

I look forward to your images. I am at 15 feet above sea level with terrible light pollution so I wish you much weather luck!

Bob

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

Harvey wrote:

This has been a challenge for me in the past but it looks good for me this year. The night sky has been cloud free - I plan on going east on CA Hwy 88 to near Carson Pass - about 8,500 ft and miles from any light what so ever- great eastern view and lots of safe parking - rest rooms close by- LOL .

I am not fortunate to have a good location like you have, but may still try to find a reasonably dark location here in North Texas the evening of the 11th going into the 12th. That is suppose to be the peak night for meteors. It gets "good and dark" here between 9:30 and 10:00, and moonrise will be a little before 1 AM, so there should be close to three hours of good viewing and shooting, if we are lucky. Fortunately, since the origin point is to the east of Polaris, the activity level doesn't change drastically as the earth rotates. If luck is good, I might try again Wednesday evening.

After watching the PhotoPills class, my concern is that it is quite a lot of boredom collecting images in order to get ready for a lot of work later at the computer. The camera and intervalometer will be doing essentially all the work while I sit and watch the sky. But if the sky is dark and the air is clear. there might be an opportunity for some Milky Way shots. I wish I knew someone who is a member of the Dallas astronomy club and would take me to their dark sky site, but I'll likely end up at the Hagerman Wildlife Refuge.

IHH61 Loc: Homestead Fl

South Florida National Parks Camera Club is doing a socially distanced field trip to the Everglades

iamimdoc

Going close to McDonald Observatory, near Marfa, Texas

chuckla Loc: Kennesaw, GA USA

Going to Pickett-Pogue State Park astronomy field near Jamestown, TN...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Harvey wrote:

This has been a challenge for me in the past but it looks good for me this year. The night sky has been cloud free - I plan on going east on CA Hwy 88 to near Carson Pass - about 8,500 ft and miles from any light what so ever- great eastern view and lots of safe parking - rest rooms close by- LOL .

Sounds tempting, but that a 3,000 mile drive for me. I'll wait to see pictures online.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

If anyone is interested in the PhotoPills class, here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlR-XrDhRIE&list=PLI-0nYk64zjo-QB4Uh0YaCHF8j1BBRJdb&index=12

It runs for two hours and is very comprehensive...starts with picking a location and ends with a step-by-step tutorial of a couple of editing methods that get to pretty nice results. A good bit of what is covered applies generally to night sky photography.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Looks like a good spot. I live in the High Desert here in Oregon, east side of the Cascade Mountains at 3,000' elev. I might go about a mile from my house to get out of the city light. Basically where I shot this one of the milky way. It has two shooting stars in it.

jblazar Loc: Sunnyvale, CA

I am planning on going to central California in a relatively dark sky location--Little Panoche Rd at about 1400 ft. I'm hoping for oak-studded hillsides for a foreground.

Carson Pass is a wonderful area. We spent many summer vacations at Silver Lake. Hiked all up a down the Carson Pass area. I assume you will be near Frog Lake near the summit. Just a gorgeous area. Schneider Camp in wildflower season is amazing.

By the way, in case you didn't realize it, there is lots of dust on your sensor, mostly visible in the sky area.

I hope you get many good shots.

rochephoto

Harvey wrote:

This has been a challenge for me in the past but it looks good for me this year. The night sky has been cloud free - I plan on going east on CA Hwy 88 to near Carson Pass - about 8,500 ft and miles from any light what so ever- great eastern view and lots of safe parking - rest rooms close by- LOL .

Be sure to clean your sensor before you go. That big dust bug is not your friend...

RichKenn Loc: Merritt Island, FL

Harvey wrote:

This has been a challenge for me in the past but it looks good for me this year. The night sky has been cloud free - I plan on going east on CA Hwy 88 to near Carson Pass - about 8,500 ft and miles from any light what so ever- great eastern view and lots of safe parking - rest rooms close by- LOL .

Lots of luck! I lived in Pioneer 25 years and worked as a Forest Service docent at Carson Pass for 12 or 15 years. Loved those beautiful clear skies. Now, I live in hazy Florida with different options.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

RichKenn wrote:

Lots of luck! I lived in Pioneer 25 years and worked as a Forest Service docent at Carson Pass for 12 or 15 years. Loved those beautiful clear skies. Now, I live in hazy Florida with different options.

And I left cocoa Beach to come to Fresno California. I worked at cape Canaveral in the early 60's. Walked across a1a to the beach. It's all high rise now. I actually lived in a two story house in satellite beach for awhile then moved to a trailer park at the corner of a1a and 518 causeway.

jblazar Loc: Sunnyvale, CA

Well, I decided to go up to the Sierras for the Perseids. We booked a room at Kit Carson Lodge on Silver Lake. I'll scout around higher up on Hwy 88 for good vantage points. Maybe I'll see you up there:)

jblazar Loc: Sunnyvale, CA

I think I will check out Frog Lake for a good viewpoint.