Drove some 130km in search of a better place - Fortaleza is a city of
light, unsuitable for any kind of astrophotography. Managed to take a
friend with me - still using Canon but he'll see the light someday.
As soon as we secure the place and start shooting, we get company - a
donkey came by to check our cameras... and escaped being shot due to my
rigorous training and the fact we had only a smalish 35cm knife. After
20 minutes of happy shooting - no meteors but some stars - the clouds
roll in. Shit!
Spent most of the night waiting, trying other nearby spots with less
eyewitnesses, and after a while we get a still better place and clear
skies again... so when the right meteor streaks across clear and
properly framed Orion I notice the long exposure I set up before
grabbing a coke had terminated due battery issues... good the donkey was
not nearby, there was some swearing.
Soon after the second battery is installed, clouds strike again. Time
for a snack. After some more shots dodging the worst clouds, we gave up
and drove home.
Balance - 11 meteors, 1 medium and rather good looking, 8 small, 2
almost invisible - one each photographer. Lots of scared drivers afraid
of the new mobile radar manned by plain-clothed officers into a
non-police car, 5 sandwiches and some coke consumed, some astro pix to
be processed soon, and two very interesting places mapped and ready for
the next show - december 13/14. Could be a lot worse...
lf
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