I'm not sure what happened but it looks like the weather Goddess decided we needed clear skies tonight. When the clouds first cleared around 10 I figured it was just a sucker hole. But here it is 4 hours later and the skies here near SPOC a completely clear. Seeing the Milky Way straight overhead is just an added treat. I can't say tonight's shower is the best I've seen but there have been some nice meteors. A couple leaving trains that lasted a few seconds. Plus I got to examine another 300 or so galaxies, all of which I'm sorry to say are supernova free... patrick
I went out for about half an hour early this morning, saw seven in that time. One was at least first magnitude, the others considerably dimmer. Only the bright one left a lingering train, all were fairly short streaks. Not like the Geminids at all. Not bad for a short stint from the light-polluted 'burbs. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@digis.net> wrote:
I'm not sure what happened but it looks like the weather Goddess decided we needed clear skies tonight.
When the clouds first cleared around 10 I figured it was just a sucker hole. But here it is 4 hours later and the skies here near SPOC a completely clear.
Seeing the Milky Way straight overhead is just an added treat.
I can't say tonight's shower is the best I've seen but there have been some nice meteors. A couple leaving trains that lasted a few seconds.
I'm out of state this week in rural Illinois. Nice dark skies here. Milky Way is beautiful and the Andromeda Galaxy looks amazing in my 15x70 binoculars (all I have with me). Observed Perseids last night 11-12:30 and also Tues morning 2:00-3:00. Good meteors both nights. Lots of faint ones. Several that lit up rather bright and left trails. All the kids (8, 10 and 13 yrs) got to see a few but younger kids did not really have the patience to stare and watch and were frequently disappointed when they were not paying attention for the big moment. Certainly not the amazing meteor shower I had hoped for but still a very pleasant show. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
I went out for about half an hour early this morning, saw seven in that time. One was at least first magnitude, the others considerably dimmer. Only the bright one left a lingering train, all were fairly short streaks. Not like the Geminids at all. Not bad for a short stint from the light-polluted 'burbs. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@digis.net> wrote:
I'm not sure what happened but it looks like the weather Goddess decided we needed clear skies tonight.
When the clouds first cleared around 10 I figured it was just a sucker hole. But here it is 4 hours later and the skies here near SPOC a completely clear.
Seeing the Milky Way straight overhead is just an added treat.
I can't say tonight's shower is the best I've seen but there have been some nice meteors. A couple leaving trains that lasted a few seconds.
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I went to Little Mountain at 1:30am and there was a dozen cars and others coming and going. It was nice to know that so many people knew to come up and look. I walked around the mountain until out of range of the car headlights and found a sweet spot with good darkness. I rate the night as about 4.5 limiting magnitude, based on the easy view of Kappa and Iota CAS. The sky was muggy however. With over an inch of water in the air column it was hazy everywhere below 40 degrees altitude so the Milky Way was only visible above the elevation of Polaris. Saw about a dozen with trails back to a spot between the double cluster and Alpha PER. One bright trail ran the length the stars in the Little Dipper. Only stayed for a half hour but it was worth the dive up to the higher elevation. DT From: Joel Stucki <joel.stucki@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 6:56 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds I'm out of state this week in rural Illinois. Nice dark skies here. Milky Way is beautiful and the Andromeda Galaxy looks amazing in my 15x70 binoculars (all I have with me). Observed Perseids last night 11-12:30 and also Tues morning 2:00-3:00. Good meteors both nights. Lots of faint ones. Several that lit up rather bright and left trails. All the kids (8, 10 and 13 yrs) got to see a few but younger kids did not really have the patience to stare and watch and were frequently disappointed when they were not paying attention for the big moment. Certainly not the amazing meteor shower I had hoped for but still a very pleasant show. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
I went out for about half an hour early this morning, saw seven in that time. One was at least first magnitude, the others considerably dimmer. Only the bright one left a lingering train, all were fairly short streaks. Not like the Geminids at all. Not bad for a short stint from the light-polluted 'burbs. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@digis.net> wrote:
I'm not sure what happened but it looks like the weather Goddess decided we needed clear skies tonight.
When the clouds first cleared around 10 I figured it was just a sucker hole. But here it is 4 hours later and the skies here near SPOC a completely clear.
Seeing the Milky Way straight overhead is just an added treat.
I can't say tonight's shower is the best I've seen but there have been some nice meteors. A couple leaving trains that lasted a few seconds.
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From my light polluted back yard down in Lindon, with fair-poor seeing, I counted 8 between 11:30 and 12:40 last night (when I wasn't looking through my scope), one of which streaked through the eyepiece while hunting M33 in the 90mm in last night's soup (I found it, barely). It was nice to be out alone, in the quiet with the crickets, and the stars overhead. /R
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From my light polluted back yard down in Lindon, with fair-poor seeing, I counted 8 between 11:30 and 12:40 last night (when I wasn't looking through my scope), one of which streaked through the eyepiece while hunting M33 in the 90mm in last night's soup (I found it, barely). It was nice to be out alone, in the quiet with the crickets, and the stars overhead. /R _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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I too went to Little Mountain around 4am. One of my best meteor showers - 66 in about 75 minutes. I was at 57 at the one-hour mark so averaging about 1/min.Here is a photo composite (4 images) taken with my 35mm lens. Instead of a wide angle lens to capture more meteors, I went with a larger aperture to capture more detail of one section of the sky. I got lucky and caught 6 or 7 meteors in the frame, 4 of which were good enough for this composition.https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0 Streaky stars are from a 15 second exposure on a fixed tripod. Question - was that the zodiacal light I saw in the east, roughly pointing between Pollux and the Pleiades? It fit the description. I don't know if I have ever seen it so distinctly. Dion On Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:26 AM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote: It's always great to get out. Sent from my iPhone
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From my light polluted back yard down in Lindon, with fair-poor seeing, I counted 8 between 11:30 and 12:40 last night (when I wasn't looking through my scope), one of which streaked through the eyepiece while hunting M33 in the 90mm in last night's soup (I found it, barely). It was nice to be out alone, in the quiet with the crickets, and the stars overhead. /R _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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Dion, the link didn't work for me (I'd love to see your image)./R From: Dion Davidson via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds I too went to Little Mountain around 4am. One of my best meteor showers - 66 in about 75 minutes. I was at 57 at the one-hour mark so averaging about 1/min.Here is a photo composite (4 images) taken with my 35mm lens. Instead of a wide angle lens to capture more meteors, I went with a larger aperture to capture more detail of one section of the sky. I got lucky and caught 6 or 7 meteors in the frame, 4 of which were good enough for this composition.https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0 Streaky stars are from a 15 second exposure on a fixed tripod. Question - was that the zodiacal light I saw in the east, roughly pointing between Pollux and the Pleiades? It fit the description. I don't know if I have ever seen it so distinctly. Dion On Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:26 AM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote: It's always great to get out. Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 13, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
From my light polluted back yard down in Lindon, with fair-poor seeing, I counted 8 between 11:30 and 12:40 last night (when I wasn't looking through my scope), one of which streaked through the eyepiece while hunting M33 in the 90mm in last night's soup (I found it, barely). It was nice to be out alone, in the quiet with the crickets, and the stars overhead. /R _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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scratch that, I just tried again, with success. Lovely image!/R From: Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Dion Davidson <diondavidson@yahoo.com>; Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds Dion, the link didn't work for me (I'd love to see your image)./R From: Dion Davidson via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds I too went to Little Mountain around 4am. One of my best meteor showers - 66 in about 75 minutes. I was at 57 at the one-hour mark so averaging about 1/min.Here is a photo composite (4 images) taken with my 35mm lens. Instead of a wide angle lens to capture more meteors, I went with a larger aperture to capture more detail of one section of the sky. I got lucky and caught 6 or 7 meteors in the frame, 4 of which were good enough for this composition.https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0 Streaky stars are from a 15 second exposure on a fixed tripod. Question - was that the zodiacal light I saw in the east, roughly pointing between Pollux and the Pleiades? It fit the description. I don't know if I have ever seen it so distinctly. Dion On Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:26 AM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote: It's always great to get out. Sent from my iPhone
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From my light polluted back yard down in Lindon, with fair-poor seeing, I counted 8 between 11:30 and 12:40 last night (when I wasn't looking through my scope), one of which streaked through the eyepiece while hunting M33 in the 90mm in last night's soup (I found it, barely). It was nice to be out alone, in the quiet with the crickets, and the stars overhead. /R _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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I can't see it, Rich. Could you send the URL in a clickable form? Thanks, Joe From: Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com>; Dion Davidson <diondavidson@yahoo.com>; Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com>; Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds scratch that, I just tried again, with success. Lovely image!/R From: Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Dion Davidson <diondavidson@yahoo.com>; Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds Dion, the link didn't work for me (I'd love to see your image)./R From: Dion Davidson via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds I too went to Little Mountain around 4am. One of my best meteor showers - 66 in about 75 minutes. I was at 57 at the one-hour mark so averaging about 1/min.Here is a photo composite (4 images) taken with my 35mm lens. Instead of a wide angle lens to capture more meteors, I went with a larger aperture to capture more detail of one section of the sky. I got lucky and caught 6 or 7 meteors in the frame, 4 of which were good enough for this composition.https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0 Streaky stars are from a 15 second exposure on a fixed tripod. Question - was that the zodiacal light I saw in the east, roughly pointing between Pollux and the Pleiades? It fit the description. I don't know if I have ever seen it so distinctly. Dion On Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:26 AM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote: It's always great to get out. Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 13, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
From my light polluted back yard down in Lindon, with fair-poor seeing, I counted 8 between 11:30 and 12:40 last night (when I wasn't looking through my scope), one of which streaked through the eyepiece while hunting M33 in the 90mm in last night's soup (I found it, barely). It was nice to be out alone, in the quiet with the crickets, and the stars overhead. /R _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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I copy and pasted it, but it worked fine. Let's see if this becomes clickable... https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0 Nice shot, Dion! Linton -----Original Message----- From: Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:32 PM To: Richard Tenney ; Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds I can't see it, Rich. Could you send the URL in a clickable form? Thanks, Joe From: Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com>; Dion Davidson <diondavidson@yahoo.com>; Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com>; Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds scratch that, I just tried again, with success. Lovely image!/R From: Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Dion Davidson <diondavidson@yahoo.com>; Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds Dion, the link didn't work for me (I'd love to see your image)./R From: Dion Davidson via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds I too went to Little Mountain around 4am. One of my best meteor showers - 66 in about 75 minutes. I was at 57 at the one-hour mark so averaging about 1/min.Here is a photo composite (4 images) taken with my 35mm lens. Instead of a wide angle lens to capture more meteors, I went with a larger aperture to capture more detail of one section of the sky. I got lucky and caught 6 or 7 meteors in the frame, 4 of which were good enough for this composition.https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0 Streaky stars are from a 15 second exposure on a fixed tripod. Question - was that the zodiacal light I saw in the east, roughly pointing between Pollux and the Pleiades? It fit the description. I don't know if I have ever seen it so distinctly. Dion
On 8/13/2015 1:25 PM, Linton Rohr wrote:
I copy and pasted it, but it worked fine. Let's see if this becomes clickable...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0
Nice shot, Dion! Linton
Thanks for posting, Linton. Beautiful shot, Dion. 73
You're quite welcome. Glad it worked. We had a pretty good show, here in Torrey/Capitol Reef. I got a good omen, when I stepped out the back door and saw two really nice ones shoot through the tail of the Great Bear (aka the Big Dippers handle ;^) within a minute. We were out from about 11:30 to 2:00, and I saw at least 100. About 1/3 of them were really long, bright, and left trails (ionized air glowing). Mostly in the N/NW, near Draco and the Dippers, but whenever I turned around and faced Boulder Mountain, I always saw a few over there. And even the fainter ones were pretty nice. A very beautiful night. 8^) Linton -----Original Message----- From: Larry Holmes Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:39 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds On 8/13/2015 1:25 PM, Linton Rohr wrote:
I copy and pasted it, but it worked fine. Let's see if this becomes clickable...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0
Nice shot, Dion! Linton
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Thanks for the kind comments. I was especially happy with the colors visible in each streak I captured. Each had a nice transition from blue-green to orange. Joan - to be clear, my image is a combination of four photos each with one streak in it. I aligned and rotated the images so the background stars lined up then combined them in Photoshop. Three of the streaks were recorded during 15 second exposures, one during an 8 second exposure. (If I could do it again I would go with shorter exposures and a wider aperture. The smearing from the motion of the earth is more apparent than lens issues that appear when using a wide-open aperture.) I did enjoy photographing a section of the sky in greater detail rather than trying to get the whole sky in the frame. The colors and background made it worth it. The whole frame, uncropped, included the Pleiades which was cool to see. Dion On Thursday, August 13, 2015 6:01 PM, Linton Rohr <lintonius@earthlink.net> wrote: You're quite welcome. Glad it worked. We had a pretty good show, here in Torrey/Capitol Reef. I got a good omen, when I stepped out the back door and saw two really nice ones shoot through the tail of the Great Bear (aka the Big Dippers handle ;^) within a minute. We were out from about 11:30 to 2:00, and I saw at least 100. About 1/3 of them were really long, bright, and left trails (ionized air glowing). Mostly in the N/NW, near Draco and the Dippers, but whenever I turned around and faced Boulder Mountain, I always saw a few over there. And even the fainter ones were pretty nice. A very beautiful night. 8^) Linton -----Original Message----- From: Larry Holmes Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:39 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds On 8/13/2015 1:25 PM, Linton Rohr wrote:
I copy and pasted it, but it worked fine. Let's see if this becomes clickable...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0
Nice shot, Dion! Linton
Thanks for posting, Linton. Beautiful shot, Dion. 73 _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
Now you tell me lol. Still, it's a great picture, even if it was photoshopped. That's the danger of that program. You can create images that are not "real" and who among us can tell when they are not? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dion Davidson via Utah-Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 9:46:57 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds Thanks for the kind comments. I was especially happy with the colors visible in each streak I captured. Each had a nice transition from blue-green to orange. Joan - to be clear, my image is a combination of four photos each with one streak in it. I aligned and rotated the images so the background stars lined up then combined them in Photoshop. Three of the streaks were recorded during 15 second exposures, one during an 8 second exposure. (If I could do it again I would go with shorter exposures and a wider aperture. The smearing from the motion of the earth is more apparent than lens issues that appear when using a wide-open aperture.) I did enjoy photographing a section of the sky in greater detail rather than trying to get the whole sky in the frame. The colors and background made it worth it. The whole frame, uncropped, included the Pleiades which was cool to see. Dion On Thursday, August 13, 2015 6:01 PM, Linton Rohr <lintonius@earthlink.net> wrote: You're quite welcome. Glad it worked. We had a pretty good show, here in Torrey/Capitol Reef. I got a good omen, when I stepped out the back door and saw two really nice ones shoot through the tail of the Great Bear (aka the Big Dippers handle ;^) within a minute. We were out from about 11:30 to 2:00, and I saw at least 100. About 1/3 of them were really long, bright, and left trails (ionized air glowing). Mostly in the N/NW, near Draco and the Dippers, but whenever I turned around and faced Boulder Mountain, I always saw a few over there. And even the fainter ones were pretty nice. A very beautiful night. 8^) Linton -----Original Message----- From: Larry Holmes Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:39 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds On 8/13/2015 1:25 PM, Linton Rohr wrote:
I copy and pasted it, but it worked fine. Let's see if this becomes clickable...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0
Nice shot, Dion! Linton
Thanks for posting, Linton. Beautiful shot, Dion. 73 _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
Great image Dion. Wow, getting four in 15 seconds, impressive. I "stole" it to share with others, but you will get full credit. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dion Davidson via Utah-Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:42:04 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds I too went to Little Mountain around 4am. One of my best meteor showers - 66 in about 75 minutes. I was at 57 at the one-hour mark so averaging about 1/min.Here is a photo composite (4 images) taken with my 35mm lens. Instead of a wide angle lens to capture more meteors, I went with a larger aperture to capture more detail of one section of the sky. I got lucky and caught 6 or 7 meteors in the frame, 4 of which were good enough for this composition.https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0 Streaky stars are from a 15 second exposure on a fixed tripod. Question - was that the zodiacal light I saw in the east, roughly pointing between Pollux and the Pleiades? It fit the description. I don't know if I have ever seen it so distinctly. Dion On Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:26 AM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote: It's always great to get out. Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 13, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
From my light polluted back yard down in Lindon, with fair-poor seeing, I counted 8 between 11:30 and 12:40 last night (when I wasn't looking through my scope), one of which streaked through the eyepiece while hunting M33 in the 90mm in last night's soup (I found it, barely). It was nice to be out alone, in the quiet with the crickets, and the stars overhead. /R _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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Chuck Hards -
daniel turner -
Dion Davidson -
Joan Carman -
Joe Bauman -
Joel Stucki -
Larry Holmes -
Linton Rohr -
Richard Tenney -
Wiggins Patrick