Intro and Question

[BWhitey]

G'day

My name is Whitey and I'm new to astronomy, astrophotography and general photography in fact. I don't even own bino's or a telescope yet, just using my mud pies and attempting to take the odd snap with my old canon 400D.

Anyway I was taking some shots of the southern cross a few weeks back on the 6th Aug. I got home and checked out the shots on the PC, I noticed in three of the photos I captured a meteor in each one. Would these meteors be related to any particular shower or was I just lucky?

I attached a composite shot of them, please excuse the poor photo and post processing.

http://i511.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps985acd90.jpg

[adman (Adam)]

they look a little more like satellites - the trails start and stop suddenly. It also looks like the trail at the top right and bottom left are the same satellite, with the gap between images responsible for the gap in the trail...?

and !

Adam

[BWhitey]

Cool, Just learnt something new!

I was taking 30 sec subs, the bottom left and top top right are about 2 mins apart so it looks about right.

The higher one on the left was taken about 15 mins earlier.

Thanks for that Adam.