Photography of Geminids meteor shower tonight

[hotspur (Chris)]

Not sure where to ask this,been a while since I did any astro stuff.

Just wondering how to go about this,I did see and image that was a stack of a large amount from a member here years ago,he did well,and all meteors could be seen coming from radiant point,looked cool,the photographer (cannot remember name) won a APOD with it and used a Vixen GPD2 mount -older green version.

I have similar mount that is aligned,and could put a canon 50D and 10-22mm canon lens.

What settings and time for subs would be best,I am thinking use lens at 10 mm. Hope to get a heap of images and stack these and see radiant point.

Thanks for any pointers.Might be my last chance to do this.

[hotspur (Chris)]

Thought I'd bump this up a bit and see if there was any astronomers on the forum.

I'll have a mount tracking,with 10 mm wide lens.

Perhaps 1 minute subs with 20 seconds between shots??

Any thoughts or suggestions??

[Solitarian]

Try this
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=...9&e=e3028d8073

Always good advice

[DJT (David)]

Hi Chris

Sky at night did a piece on geminds in the current issue
It's on line here

http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/fe...meteor-showers

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Chris, a 60 sec image with 20 sec gaps means you can only get 75% of the meteors - assuming they occur regularly.

As for the actual shooting, it all depends on how your camera handles long exposures and the noise from them, and how much light pollution you have.

If you have ICNR turned on a 60 sec exposure takes 120 secs. If you turn it off then you can cut down the delay between frames to a couple of seconds - long enough for it to save the image.

Then you'd have to take a series of dark frames equal in length to create a master dark and do dark subtraction.

60 sec exposures here would be totally wiped out by light pollution.

[hotspur (Chris)]

Yes,Andrew,forgot to say,I live in bush,no light pollution.I do 5 minute subd of milky way in winter with the 10 mm lens.

Thanks all re info.But you guessed it,CLOUDS

[PostalRuhl (Bryan)]

Darn it I missed it! Never actually captured meteor showers wonder if bulb mode is best.

[hotspur (Chris)]

Originally Posted by PostalRuhl

Darn it I missed it! Never actually captured meteor showers wonder if bulb mode is best.

Have a look at image section,think Phil Hart got a good image,and mentions settings.

I did not end up,trying to get an image.But watched the sky for a a few hours,saw over twelve,a couple of good ones.