Perseids Pictures
During the recent Perseid meteor shower, on a whim I decided to try man hand at Astro Photography for the very first time during which I learned three very important things:
Firstly, it really helps if you take fully charged batteries.
Secondly, where I live it is pretty much impossible to get away from light pollution.
And thirdly, in meteor pictures, size is everything.
Unfortunately, I somewhat failed in the latter by using a relatively wide angle lens.
So, here are three of the pictures taken on the night, somewhat messed about with to hide as much of the light pollution as possible. It seems that green is the in-colour for meteors this year.
August 19th, 2007