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Old 06-05-2013, 05:04 PM
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Here's a stack of images captured on Sunday morning at Heathcote LMDSS (ASV Dark Sky Site).

I count 17 Eta Aquarids and 19 others. The others don't all seem to be sporadic as five or so on the left side of the image can all be traced back to a point up higher on the right side. Any ideas - there are several related streams right? The true sporadics are generally fainter/shorter than the Eta Aquarids so a bit harder to find in this image without being able to 'blink' compare the individual shots.

I kept a Canon 6D with 24mm f1.4 lens (wide open) running constantly with 6 sec exposures at ISO6400 from 4am to 5:30am on an iOpton SkyTracker and then have aligned and maximum combined the frames with meteors. For a few of the brighter ones, the meteors were visible in two frames, one with the meteor itself and then the second the green train left behind.

Pity I wasn't able to repeat this morning!

Phil
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