Trail Pictures

Pleiades

Meteor in full shot

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Meteor cropped

Meteor Shower

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The early morning of 13 Aug 10, I decided to check out the Perseids meteor shower.  We had

seen this shower about four years earlier with David down in southern Utah, and it was

awesome.  This time, though, I decided to get up about 2 am and drive out to a dark spot and

try to get some pictures of a meteor falling.  I knew the odds were against it, but I wanted to try.

Tracy didn't want to have anything to do with getting up that early on a work day, though, so I

went by myself.  I drove for about an hour, and had a hard time deciding on where to stay.  I

eventually found a nice dark spot, even if there were some hills around me, and I proceeded to

try to get a picture of a falling star.  Well, I literally probably saw a hundred meteors, and there

were half a dozen that I would see fall right in front of my camera just as a I heard the 30

second shutter close.  It was very frustrating.  But after all was said and done, I actually

managed to catch one!  When I saw it fall and figured I had caught it, I was jumping around

doing a happy dance!  It took nearly two hours just to barely catch one, but it was fun to try.

The picture isn't great, but you can see it, and that's a good start for my first time out with a

point and shoot camera.  This was the most meteors I have ever seen in one shower.  There

were several times when I was seeing 5 or 6 in one minute, and even two or three in a matter

of 10 seconds.  It was a good night, and I want to do more of that.  I survived the day at work!