Picture of a Perseid of magnitude -2. In the night of 2/3 august I did some visual and photographic observations on the Perseids. I counted 92 meteors (4.30 hours effective). I had a Canon 10D with a timer controller mounted on a Vixen Photoguider. Used lens: Canon ef 2.8/15 mm fish eye. Exposure time 90 seconds, 800 iso, 3.2/15 mm.
This is a photo taken on August 8, 2005 of a green Perseid meteor scooting by in Ursa Major. A fainter sporadic meteor also appeared in the bowl of the dipper. This was a one minute exposure taken with a Canon 300D, a 35mm F2 lens and with the ISO set to 400.
There were some really bright Perseids to see last night at our clubs observatory on Schauinsland mountain. Unfortunately the humidity was horrible, we had to blow dry our telescopes every 15 minutes. The Perseid captured just shined through the fogged over camera lens. Photo details: Canon digital Rebel (modified) DSLR, ISO 1600, exposure time 60s, Tokina 12mm lens at f4 fog over
Bright flaring Perseid meteor streaks through Auriga. Taken with Canon 300D and 15mm Sigma wide-angle lens at f/3.5. 30 second exposure at ISO1600. Just about to pack up Perseid watch as dawn approached
After a week of very bad weather, we had some clear spells in the evening of 11 august. During 3 hours I counted ~100 meteors. This Perseid of -3 I captured with a Canon 10D in combination of a 2.8/15 mm fish eye. A second Perseid is visible just above the trees in the middle of this picture
As this Perseid meteor streaks below Deneb and the North American Nebula in Cygnus, its colour changes from red to green. The colour effect is caused by burning oxygen. The green colour is seen in the higher atmosphere, turning red as it approaches lower altitudes. Although the rates were a little disappointing and many meteors were low magnitude, we were treated to a few spectacular trails during an enjoyable meteor watch in the company of Sir Patrick Moore in his garden here in Selsey
A reasonably clear evening, interrupted by fast moving cloud from time to time, presented a rather subdued build up to the Perseid maximum for 2005. Not many bright Perseids but a fair number sighted around the mag. 2-4 range.
August 12/13, 2005 22:32 - 1:28 UT Camera: Canon EOS 20Da, tracking the stars Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm @ 11mm f/4 ISO 1600 Exposure time for the background: 10x 2 minutes The image shows the Milky Way in the Cepheus and Summer Triangle region . It shows also 6 Peredids and one Non-Perseid meteor. Best, Stefan http://www.astromeeting.de
Saw one much better but due to only using a 18-55 lense at 18mm, it evaded my FOV. Saw about 10 in 3hrs. Photo taken with Canon 350D; 1600 ISO; 20s exposure; 5.6 aperture @ 00:01BST.
This was the night's most bright Perseid, it left a luminous cloud that lasted several minutes and was visible to the naked eye during the first two minutes