Perseid Meteor Shower (Explored)
This will probably be my last post for a few weeks as we are off on a cruise to the Mediterranean with friends. As many of my regular Flickr friends will know I love watching and photographing meteors and the best one for England is the annual Perseid shower. Whilst it is showing now, the peak will come over the night of 12/13 August but the forecast for my part of England (Sussex) is for cloud cover for the rest of the week. Aaargh! So I set up the camera on a tripod and set the intervalometer overnight in the hope I may get something last night. It was still rather cloudy so out of 400+ images, only two showed meteors and only in this one (at 04.00hrs) is it vaguely visible (top right hand corner). Hmmm, disappointing but here's hoping the forecast is wrong and the skies will clear. Thanks for all the recent support and make sure you all behave yourselves whilst I'm away! Tom
Perseid Meteor Shower (Explored)
This will probably be my last post for a few weeks as we are off on a cruise to the Mediterranean with friends. As many of my regular Flickr friends will know I love watching and photographing meteors and the best one for England is the annual Perseid shower. Whilst it is showing now, the peak will come over the night of 12/13 August but the forecast for my part of England (Sussex) is for cloud cover for the rest of the week. Aaargh! So I set up the camera on a tripod and set the intervalometer overnight in the hope I may get something last night. It was still rather cloudy so out of 400+ images, only two showed meteors and only in this one (at 04.00hrs) is it vaguely visible (top right hand corner). Hmmm, disappointing but here's hoping the forecast is wrong and the skies will clear. Thanks for all the recent support and make sure you all behave yourselves whilst I'm away! Tom