The Next Meteor Shower Is Next Week

[Speed]

The Perseid Meteor shower is suppose to peak on the nights of the 11th and 12th.

Get out your cameras!

http://skyandtelescope.com/observing...cle_1557_1.asp

[paulnj]

OH , so you are saying I should leave work at 11PM on thursday and friday and find a dark spot to shoot the sky ?

So grand master of dark skies.... should I shot wide open? F8, F11.....?

[another view]

Great timing! I'll be up north and will hope for clear skies. Thanks!

[Kokopeli]

The Perseid Meteor shower is suppose to peak on the nights of the 11th and 12th.

Get out your cameras!

http://skyandtelescope.com/observing...cle_1557_1.asp

I wonder how visible they'll be from Maui???...

[walterick]

Sounds great Speedo! With any luck I'll be able to get out in the desert and lay out to watch 'em. Pretty sure I had them marked on my calendar but the more reminders the better

Rick

[paulnj]

Rick,

my suggestion is to head up rt 17 to 74? the go to lake pleasant if you can get in at night?

The place will be dark , as nothing is around for miles besides the road and a town atleast 5 miles away . The lake will also make a great scenery too

But then again you will have plenty of dark desert before then too

[Speed]

OH , so you are saying I should leave work at 11PM on thursday and friday and find a dark spot to shoot the sky ?

So grand master of dark skies.... should I shot wide open? F8, F11.....?

But it obviously didn't take!

Shoot at f 8 or f 11 and you might get trails from Jupiter. Might. Otherwise, you'll have a lot of blank film (or blank images in your case).

I would recommend wide open or close to it. Get the fastest lens you can, preferably an f 1.4 or f 1.8, and shoot around f2.0. That will get you plenty of stars and show most of the meteors.

Also, I would shoot with a 50mm or wider. Again, depends on what you've got in your bag.

Last but not least, I'd shoot for about 30 seconds with the 50mm, longer with a wider lens.

Hope this helps.

[paulnj]

SHHHHH , but I have a friend with a nikkor 300f2 AIS, and may be able to get a canon 200f1.8 on loan OH wait..... so I should try to get a WIDE lens huh

[Speed]

I wonder how visible they'll be from Maui???...

They should be as good from Maui as anywhere else.

Try to find a dark spot.