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 -- Jeff Hopkins HPO SOFT Counting Photons http://www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html Hopkins Phoenix Observatory 7812 West Clayton Drive Phoenix, Arizona 85033-2439 U.S.A. (623)849-5889 (623) 247-1190 (Fax) www.hposoft.com -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.