not quite an Orionid Meteor

Astroman (Andrew Wall) · #1 24-10-2011, 07:14 PM

Hi all,

Well this was the only meteor I could capture during the Orionid Meteor shower

Had to process this a bit to get it to show up enough, draw back from not having a fast lens... I am kicking myself as I could have used my old 50mm f1.8 for this one, since it was in the middle of the frame, even though this image is cropped a little.

12 frames stacked then meteor frame stacked in Photoshop. Did this to reduce background noise. Canon 400D, Canon 17-40mm f4L USM lens, ISO800 1m 30s exp. Tracking via Orion Teletrack (yes you do notice the field rotation)

Thought I better add that this is not of an Orionid Meteor, but a sporadic meteor which just happened to look like it came from Orion, the Meteor travelled Left to right in the frame....

atalas · #2 24-10-2011, 07:23 PM

Nice catch Andrew.

Ross G · #3 24-10-2011, 10:00 PM

A good capture.

Ross.

astronobob (Bob) · #4 26-10-2011, 11:37 PM

Good one Andrew , ,

midnight (Darrin) · #5 27-10-2011, 01:23 AM

Good capture there Andrew. Nonetheless it does visually "originate" from Orion so even though it may not be an Orionid, the visual impact is there.

Cheers,
Darrin...