Observation by Steve Knight: Two Perseids

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2018 Aug 13 - 23:55

Uploaded

2018 Aug 17 - 19:31

Objects

Meteor

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Constellation

Pisces

Field centre

RA: 00^h20^m
Dec: +04°46'
Position angle: +109°45'

Field size

0°07' × 0°03'

Equipment

Canon 6D DSLR
Samyang 24mm f1.4 lens

Exposure

65 frames stacked (1/30th sec, ISO 25,600) Extracted from video.

Location

Warkworth

Target name

Perseids

Title

Two Perseids

About this image

My first experiment with videoing meteors. The top Perseid was at 0:55.41, the one below it was 1.8 seconds later. Frame rate was 24Hz. This is looking south, Mars is at bottom.

Files associated with this observation

StarStaX_MVI_9113 04227-MVI_9113 04290_lighten faststoned denoised.jpg (1.5 MB)

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