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Chat => Photography => Topic started by: zpyder on November 17, 2012, 11:42:41 AM
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I've tried a bit 9 months ago or so, but had limited success. Apparently the leonid meteor shower is happening over the next couple of nights and it should be the best tonight.
I'm planning on heading into the new forest to try and get some shots, curious if anyone else is going to try too, and what settings etc you're going to use?
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Haven't really thought about going to try and get some shots but if you do miss out tonight I read somewhere that the Geminids in December have a higher rate of meteors per hour or something like that.
As for settings its probably going to be a bit awkward, I guess once you get yourself setup at your location do a few shots and expose for the sky/stars aiming for maybe 5-10 seconds so you get a nice trail from any meteors (you might need shorter than that as well, just depends how fast the meteors are travelling). You probably want to take a shot exposed for the foreground so you can merge it in later if needs be. Then just sit and wait and trigger the camera off as soon as you see anything, if you try for long exposures in the hope of getting something your going to end up with lots of shots with nothing in and have to deal with noise and hot pixels.
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If I had the knowledge and equipment it would be something I'd definitely be interested in, should be a good night for you even if you don't have much success out of it.
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I'll go and have a look at this tonight, rising in the east at about 23.30 according to sky maps.
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I was thinking about going out to have a look but that'll probably be a bit late for me, can't seem to get much past 11 these days, I'll see if I'm still up around then I'll stick my head out for a bit could do with it haven't picked my camera up in over a month!
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I was thinking about going out to have a look but that'll probably be a bit late for me, can't seem to get much past 11 these days, I'll see if I'm still up around then I'll stick my head out for a bit could do with it haven't picked my camera up in over a month!
Not much hope of getting past the light pollution in London. Would love to try some night shots, maybe over Christmas.
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Nah you've not got any hope there, and you'll have to travel for quite a while to get away from it, but you do gain some nice urban shots at night.
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These things normally come down to big aperture, wide angle lens and long exposure, with a good bit of luck and positioning. Some modern cameras should do well short exposure but you are reduced to manually setting that.
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I sat out in the 1c freezing weather on the top of the highest mountain near here for 2hours from 00.00-02.00 and didnt see F ALL :thumbdown:
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I didn't bother in the end, got drunk instead. I've heard it was a bit of a let down, though another one should occur in December that should be more frequent...?
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my Dad and I stayed up all night one year with 2 DSLRs and 4 film cameras pointed all over the place. in several hundred frames we got not one photo with a meteor in until we were packing up about 6am. I took one last shot of a camera against the faintly lightening sky and lo and behold theres a meteor trail right above the camera. It was good fun though and we saw loads of them, just very little luck on the picture front.
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Weather was cloudy here so didn't even bother :(