I was out just before moon-rise trying to see if I could catch Vesta, Ceres, and Jupiter together.
Just after I opened the shutter for a 6" exposure, I saw a meteoroid streak across the sky apparent heading towards Ain. Very short and dim, I hoped it'd be enough to expose at 1000ISO. It did! Vesta, Ceres, Jupiter, and a meteor trail in the same frame! Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good! Here it is with the red channel processed up a little bit to expose it. Sorry about the sky noise, I was shooting through a sucker-hole in the clouds and the moon was already brightening the sky. No other processing other than resize to 1280x1024. http://www.spaceballoon.org/vesta-ceres-jupiter-meteor.jpg (Canon 50D,17-40L @ 40mm,6",f/4, ISO1000, 18:37:04 - 18:37:10 PST [02:37 UTC]) P.S. Pardon the annotations, I needed them for registration to find the darned minor planets. ;) ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
