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| 3 no Meteors captured over two hours of 30 second exposures with a fixed tripod mounted Canon 600d DSLR at ISO 1600 with Sigma widefield lens at f=15mm. Image credit Kurt Thrust. |
" After a full on day at Southwold Marshes 'eclipse chasing', the team returned to the Jodrell Plank Observatory tired but keen to see a few Perseid meteors. Kurt, being the trooper he is, set up a camera to try and capture an image of at least one meteor. As is always the case with imaging meteors, you see a lot more than you capture on a small camera sensor. The above image is a compilation of the three meteors Kurt managed to net over two hours of 30 second exposures. Whether any of those captured were 'Perseid Shower Meteors' or 'sporadic meteors', which fall randomly each night, is open to debate. Kurt used a very wide angled lens to maximise the size of his 'meteor catch net' but this makes tracing them back to their apparent point of origin, near Perseus, more difficult" - Joel Cairo CEO of the JPO the UK's most easterly astronomical Observatory.
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| A grain of dust from the shower ablated by friction to create radar reflective plasma somewhere over the Mediterranean area. Here displayed on the dedicated LVST screen as a small red orange and white peak in reflected signal amplitude above the blue background noise. |
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