Now you tell me lol. Still, it's a great picture, even if it was photoshopped. That's the danger of that program. You can create images that are not "real" and who among us can tell when they are not? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dion Davidson via Utah-Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 9:46:57 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds Thanks for the kind comments. I was especially happy with the colors visible in each streak I captured. Each had a nice transition from blue-green to orange. Joan - to be clear, my image is a combination of four photos each with one streak in it. I aligned and rotated the images so the background stars lined up then combined them in Photoshop. Three of the streaks were recorded during 15 second exposures, one during an 8 second exposure. (If I could do it again I would go with shorter exposures and a wider aperture. The smearing from the motion of the earth is more apparent than lens issues that appear when using a wide-open aperture.) I did enjoy photographing a section of the sky in greater detail rather than trying to get the whole sky in the frame. The colors and background made it worth it. The whole frame, uncropped, included the Pleiades which was cool to see. Dion On Thursday, August 13, 2015 6:01 PM, Linton Rohr <lintonius@earthlink.net> wrote: You're quite welcome. Glad it worked. We had a pretty good show, here in Torrey/Capitol Reef. I got a good omen, when I stepped out the back door and saw two really nice ones shoot through the tail of the Great Bear (aka the Big Dippers handle ;^) within a minute. We were out from about 11:30 to 2:00, and I saw at least 100. About 1/3 of them were really long, bright, and left trails (ionized air glowing). Mostly in the N/NW, near Draco and the Dippers, but whenever I turned around and faced Boulder Mountain, I always saw a few over there. And even the fainter ones were pretty nice. A very beautiful night. 8^) Linton -----Original Message----- From: Larry Holmes Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:39 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Persieds On 8/13/2015 1:25 PM, Linton Rohr wrote:
I copy and pasted it, but it worked fine. Let's see if this becomes clickable...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kq9jjk9iz056vn/perseids-2015.jpg?dl=0
Nice shot, Dion! Linton
Thanks for posting, Linton. Beautiful shot, Dion. 73 _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".