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Leonids '07, The lion sleeps tonight
djellison
post Nov 19 2006, 07:38 AM
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I set up my 400D doing 30s exposures every 34 seconds, F3.5, ISO 800, fully wide ( 18mm*1.6 so 29mm equiv ) when I went to bed - it took 247 exposures looking east, from 0027 to 0257 before the battery packed up in the cold of the conservatory. I figure I was capturing 88% of that period of time on film...a total of 132 minutes of exposed time. They're great images...you can watch Leo slowly rising - M44 is very visible - getting stars down to 7, 7.5, maybe 8. Not the ideal pointing, but the best I could do from the conservatory given that I wanted to keep everything inside....a few banks of light cloud popped through every now and again, but overall, I'm fairly sure any Leonid that I would have noticed by eye I would have seen on 'film'.. I know I didn't 'get' the peak....but even 5 per hour would have seen me get a couple at least...

I have ONE streak on film....and it's not a Leonid.

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/doug_images/IMG_0107.jpg ( scaled to 50% )

I think the Lion had a night off, and I know Stu didn't fair much better in Kendal.

Doug
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- djellison   Leonids '07   Nov 19 2006, 07:38 AM
- - Stu   (cue cheesy American tv link voice) ... that...   Nov 19 2006, 09:30 AM
- - Sunspot   I only saw 1 lol   Nov 19 2006, 09:45 AM
|- - MahFL   I did not see any in NE Florida either.   Nov 19 2006, 03:02 PM
- - MizarKey   This is exactly why I don't get excited about ...   Nov 20 2006, 04:47 PM
|- - Stu   QUOTE (MizarKey @ Nov 20 2006, 04:47 PM) ...   Nov 21 2006, 12:03 AM
- - nprev   Actually, I always liked the Perseids when I was a...   Nov 21 2006, 10:01 PM
- - Aberdeenastro   I'm a bit late catching on to this thread. My...   Dec 6 2006, 03:42 PM
|- - ustrax   QUOTE (Aberdeenastro @ Dec 6 2006, 03:42 ...   Dec 14 2006, 12:09 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (Aberdeenastro @ Dec 6 2006, 04:42 ...   Dec 14 2006, 01:45 PM
- - Aberdeenastro   Well the Leonids might not have been up to much, b...   Dec 14 2006, 11:55 AM
|- - AndyG   QUOTE (Aberdeenastro @ Dec 14 2006, 11:55...   Dec 14 2006, 04:21 PM
- - Aberdeenastro   Thanks Ustrax and Tesheiner for the congrats. Don...   Dec 18 2006, 01:02 PM

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