Meteors pre Perseid Shower

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I was gearing up for the Perseid peak and the 10th August was a perfect night, clear and warm so I set up a trial taking successive 30 sec exposures at f2.8 ISO 2500. Site was only my garden but it is in the countryside and fairly dark.

I got a few meteor trails and one which I suspect is a satellite. There were also plenty of aircraft trails, easily identified from the strobe pattern of dots and the regular flight path.

Polaris is 1/3 way across from left.

Unfortunately on the peak meteor shower nights clouds obscured the sky here and photography was not practical

This is a composite of the best trails stacked as layers in Photoshop and masked to show a single background image.

meteor composite 1000.jpg
 
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Hi bill a good number of meteors there and some good colour, I popped out last minuite and got about 45 minute of shooting in last friday night. a few strikes but nothing worth writing home about really.
 
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