Hi! Just want to share this photo I took this morning.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/98832106@N ... otostream/
Perseid Meteor
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Nice! had managed to see quite a few meteors in Mersing over the weekend but had been unable to catch any on camera! *jealous*Re: Perseid Meteor
Thanks lqx! Going to try again tonight if the skies are good and see if I can capture a couple more.
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Congrats! Good job!aleetk wrote:Hi! Just want to share this photo I took this morning.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/98832106@N ... otostream/
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Can share more details the exact time of the shot and which direction/constellation and how high your camera was pointing at?
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Hi Gary,
The photo I took of the meteor is actually a crop from this image -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/98832106@N03/9526068045/. The meteor is at the top of the image.
Location: Just outside Raffles Girls' Primary School gate.
Time: 536am
Direction: Pointing somewhere towards East based on what I check using Stellarium. The Perseus constellation was to the left of where I was aiming.
Camera Angle: Not sure but definitely more than 45 degrees. Had to raise the tripod centre column so that I can tilt the camera upwards higher till it touched the column before I started shooting.
I took about 30 photos and only the 4th photo had the meteor in it.
Camera: Nikon D7000 with 10-24mm lens set at 10mm.
Exposure Settings:
F4.5
15 sec
ISO 500
Regards
Alex
The photo I took of the meteor is actually a crop from this image -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/98832106@N03/9526068045/. The meteor is at the top of the image.
Location: Just outside Raffles Girls' Primary School gate.
Time: 536am
Direction: Pointing somewhere towards East based on what I check using Stellarium. The Perseus constellation was to the left of where I was aiming.
Camera Angle: Not sure but definitely more than 45 degrees. Had to raise the tripod centre column so that I can tilt the camera upwards higher till it touched the column before I started shooting.
I took about 30 photos and only the 4th photo had the meteor in it.
Camera: Nikon D7000 with 10-24mm lens set at 10mm.
Exposure Settings:
F4.5
15 sec
ISO 500
Regards
Alex
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Thanks! Good stuff! There may be other ways to crop to make it look more interesting. Maybe portrait the the middle portion showing some trees, meteor and as many stars as possible. I may give that a try after the SAFRA event tonight. 
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
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Hi Alex. I have cropped and edited your photo to illustrate what I meant in the above post. Hope you don't mind.
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
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Hi Gary,
I don't mind at all. Thanks for sharing with me how to crop images in different ways so that they look better
Regards
Alex
I don't mind at all. Thanks for sharing with me how to crop images in different ways so that they look better
Regards
Alex
Gary wrote:Hi Alex. I have cropped and edited your photo to illustrate what I meant in the above post. Hope you don't mind.
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You are most welcomed, Alex. Sorry didn't realised you were at SAFRA too. Was too busy running around. Catch up with you another time.
http://www.astro.sg
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
email: gary[at]astro.sg
twitter: @astrosg
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
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