[X] My Assistant

[djellison]

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

[Aberdeenastro]

I'm a bit late catching on to this thread. My wife had a baby a month ago (number 3) and I'm afraid even UMSF has to take a back seat for a while.

We had a fantastic clear night in Aberdeenshire after 11:30 pm on the 18th Nov. I watched from about midnight to 1 am, catching a dozen or so Leonids. I also watched from 4:30 am to 5:30 am (on the 19th) to catch the predicted peak and counted 22 Leonids. This was slightly less than I expected, but not too bad. I think the true ZHR would have been about 50-60, but I haven't seen any official counts.

Let's hope for better luck with the Geminids next week.

Aberdeenastro