Leonids - 2020
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Leonids - 2020
Three images from this weeks (11/17/20) Leonids meteor shower. These are from about 1000 pictures taken with a Nikon D5600. Exposure for each was 8 seconds and ISO 125 using a Nikon 35mm F1.8 lens. Capture times between 3AM to 6AM. Most all were taken on automatic using interval timing, 125 pictures in each session, which is about 25 minutes worth.
The tripod mounted camera was aimed at Leo and didn’t change over the evening of images. This was my first attempt at a meteor shower and all were taken in the downtown area (which is clearly not a dark skies location).
The three selected images are cropped from the original. I only saw the first of these 3, which was quite bright and went all the way across the field of view. The exposure ended just as it entered the area, so only got about ¼ of it in the image.
The tripod mounted camera was aimed at Leo and didn’t change over the evening of images. This was my first attempt at a meteor shower and all were taken in the downtown area (which is clearly not a dark skies location).
The three selected images are cropped from the original. I only saw the first of these 3, which was quite bright and went all the way across the field of view. The exposure ended just as it entered the area, so only got about ¼ of it in the image.
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Re: Leonids - 2020
Really nice images Ed!
You caught some nice targets!
You caught some nice targets!
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Re: Leonids - 2020
Nice captures! Where in Virginia?
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Re: Leonids - 2020
Looks great Ed. Just rain here so no chance to see the Leonids.
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Re: Leonids - 2020
Mostly cloudy until dawn of course, so nada here.
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Re: Leonids - 2020
Great captures!!
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Scopes: Celestron Nexstar 8SE, Celestron C6N, WO Z61, WO GT71, iOptron RC6 .
Mounts: Celestron Nexstar, iOptron Sky Guider Pro, iOptron HEM27 w/iPolar
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Re: Leonids - 2020
very nice!
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Re: Leonids - 2020
If you ever get up my way (Culpeper), let me know. We have a great privately owned observatory (Morning Calm Observatory) that hosts a 30 inch Obsession!
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Re: Leonids - 2020
nice shots , thx
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Re: Leonids - 2020
Sounds like a good idea! Once this COVID stuff settles down some in the coming year, would love to see your setup.
Ed
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Cameras: Nikon D780, Nikon Zfc ,ZWO ASI224MC, ZWO ASI120MM-S, ZWO ASI294MC Pro, ZWO ASI485MC, ZWO ASI174MM, ASI662MC, ASI294MM, ASI2600MC Pro iPhone 14.
Tools: Raspberry PI4 with Stellarmate OS, Intel NUC Mini PC, Beelink MiniPCs.
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