Meteor Shower This Weekend

[Speed]

The Orionids peak the night of October 20/21.

Details can be found here: Orionid meteors will light up the darkness - Astronomy Magazine

More info here: http://www.space.com/18078-orionid-m...eys-comet.html

[mattb]

Did anyone else go out? I took about 400 exposures and haven't gone through them all but I did get some meteors. I left the house at about 4:15 am and went to a nice nearby recreation area with little light pollution and interesting rock formations. I had the K-5 going on it's timer with the DA 15mm and my K-x with an 8mm fisheye on another tripod.
It seems the Orionids are particularly small, dim, and fast which makes this a challenging exercise. Lucky for me they were also numerous so I could have many attempts!
Here are a few I thought worked pretty well.

K-5 & DA 15mm composite of two exposures (one for light painted rocks, one for sky).

IMGP1211-Edit by MattB.net, on Flickr

K-x & Rokinon 8mm

IMGP2563 by MattB.net, on Flickr

Stack of 100 13s exposures from the K-5 & DA 15mm

IMGP1168-IMGP1268 by MattB.net, on Flickr

[Greg McCary]

Nice Matt. I only saw a couple and didn't catch one.

[mattb]

Thanks! Here's one more, a composite I put together last night of six exposures. Five of meteors and one of the rocks.

IMGP1035-Edit by MattB.net, on Flickr