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For the 2010 Perseids, I was out at my observatory at the OCA's Anza site for two nights. During this time, I was running a Nikon D700 camera with 15mm fisheye lens in intervalometer mode (see technical details below) as well as a medium format camera with 35mm fisheye lens. Below is my "best of" collection of Perseid meteors from the two nights. These shots are also viewable as a slide show (hosted at another site). Click on the "slide show" button to view a full-screen set of images (Flash required).
12-13 August
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Two Perseids in this frame (near each other). |
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This was the brightest meteor of the two nights, captured on a film frame. I saw this meteor first as it lit up the ground and cast shadows, then watched a bright green glowing trail gradually fade out over about 30 seconds. My observatory neighbor Jim captured a digital sequence which showed that the trail lasted at least 5 minutes photographically. |
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This shot should be a lesson to all of us -- don't turn your camera off too early! |
This is a contrast-enhanced enlarged section of the previous frame. |
Visible here is the dissipating trail of the meteor seen in the previous frame. |
13-14 August
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Along with a bright Perseid meteor passing near Jupiter, this shot captured one of the many passing airplanes (bright trail at center). |
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Another late shot of the night picked up two meteors as well as the zodiacal light. |
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| These are plots of the counts of meteors captured on the digital camera over the two evenings, binned into 15-minute intervals. These do not include the bright meteor captured on film on the first night. |
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