FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Rare Aurigid Meteor Shower - Promised pics

[Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great shots Dean!

Jeff

At 13:52 -0700 09/01/2007, ketelsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Hi All-
>
>As promised, here are 4 shots from my efforts this morning.
>
>http://alice.as.arizona.edu/~ketelsen/Aurigid1.jpg
>This is a full frame, unmanipulated image - I don't think I even  adjusted
>levels (oops, I did resize it...)...  Shows the full field of the 10-22mm
>lens (set to 10mm @ F/3.5) and pretty good images all the way to the
>corners, though there is some vignetting with the ultra-wide field.  This
>was my second exposure and caught 2 Aurigids, one near the Hyades, the
>other just north of Castor and Pollux.
>
>http://alice.as.arizona.edu/~ketelsen/Aurigid1crop.jpg
>This one is a pretty tight crop of the meteor near the Hyades in the
>previous shot.  Many of the brighter ones show the green color at the
>beginning like Leonids, which are also very fast as they enter the
>atmosphere.
>
>http://alice.as.arizona.edu/~ketelsen/Aurigid2crop.jpg
>Another bright one near Castor and Pollux...
>
>http://alice.as.arizona.edu/~ketelsen/Aurigid3crop.jpg
>Another tight crop of a bright one near Beta Auriga and Mars (right).
>
>http://alice.as.arizona.edu/~ketelsen/Aurigid4crop.jpg
>Probably my favorite - a vertical crop of one that I recall was about
>magnitude -4.
>
>Ok, thats it - hope you enjoyed them and got to see some first hand!
>
>-Dean

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