The 11th and 12th of August mark the maximum of the Perseid Meteors. I tried to capture some by
leaving my camera grabbing images all night (60-second exposures continuously). I was not successful in catching a meteor (although I did catch three aircraft)
but I did get a nice AVI showing the stars and how they move as the Earth rotates. I have made an animation of
every other frame shrunk to half size which shows it quite nicely
but is almost 5 Mb in size;
to see it click here. The animation covers about 4½
hours and is speeded up 1200 times. The camera is pointing approximately north-east.
Shown below is one frame taken from that animation showing the stars I imaged at 02:14 on the
morning of 12th August 2005.
Move your mouse over the picture to see which star is which.
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The stars of Perseus and Camelopardalis. I am slightly uncertain of the identification of Algol. |
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