Perseid attempt 08/12/2010 morning

This really wasn't that great of a night, but tonight is going to even be worse most likely, so I can't complain too much. Set it up around 1130, and these were about 20 frames at 45 seconds apiece from around 1230. Then my battery died, of course. Anyway, it was extremely hot and humid at 84 degrees, and when I picked up my camera from the farm at 0630, it was covered in dew, AND it was still hot and humid at 79 degrees. Considering the hazy conditions, I'm glad I caught a few. This is a crop from the original stacked image. I used my kit lens at 18mm. ISO was at 3200, which didn't help the noise problem at all, and set at f/3.5.

I sat outside for an hour and haven't seen one yet?! I thought they were saying 50-80 per hour??

black_z wrote in post #10712570
I sat outside for an hour and haven't seen one yet?! I thought they were saying 50-80 per hour??

me too,we did'nt see any yet,but that was around 10:30 tonight,I am going to go out again after midnight,but I am afraid the city lights glow is too bright here

I'm thinking it will be better just before sunrise.
I'm going to give it a go at the beach since I work all night and get off at 5am.
Pics later if I get anything worthy.

i went out far out like 20 miles into the everglades and we saw some
i want to say about 20
this was one of the last shots i took

was out for about an hour... nothing caught by my sensor, but we did see 8 of them...

They seriously peaked around 3AM - 4AM PST. I was at Rainier capturing a timelapse - literally hundreds of them on the two cameras' FOV.

Up to 2AM it was pretty tame.

oh wow so that means us east coasters really had no chance

upon closer review, I did catch something small in one of my shots... not really worth posting though...

robbug wrote in post #10715318
They seriously peaked around 3AM - 4AM PST. I was at Rainier capturing a timelapse - literally hundreds of them on the two cameras' FOV.

Up to 2AM it was pretty tame.

I gave up around 5:15am EST, there just wasn't enough to bother. Also, it was getting a bit bright here; too much light pollution hitting the morning due/haze as it was falling, so no hope of last minute before sunrise pics.

Glad someone got to enjoy the show!

Funny thing is that even though we got rained out, and I didn't get a chance to try again until just a week ago, I still saw several, including a fireball complete with vapor trail. Should have timelaped then, I suppose. Oh well, there are still the Leonids to look forward to.