With no moon and almost no clouds, we had a pretty awesome night for the peak of the Quadrantids.
Inspired by Pierre Martin's Geminid photos, I decided to mount the DSLR and fisheye lens atop my CGEM and take some piggy backs. I shot 25 second ISO 800 exposures from 8:00 PM to 6:00 AM EST. I only captured one meteor the whole night, but it was a good one. The meteor left behind a smoke trail that I photographed for 20+ consecutive shots, that's almost 10 minutes. I think this may have been a small fireball. I made an animated gif showing the meteor and the smoke trail that dissipated afterward. You can see it here. http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/comets/2010-quadrantids-meteor-shower/ Thanks, Mike Hankey Freeland MD ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
