I found out that this was happening just as I was turning in for the night at about 11pm. So naturally I had to grab my camera and see I I could snap some pics. Did any of you get the chance to check it out last night? It's on tonight as well, but it is no longer at its peak, which was just before dawn this morning. Did anybody else take pictures?


Here are mine. All of them except one has meteors in it. The one that doesn't is just a nice picture, I think. I was very lucky: I love in the suburbs 18th a streetlight just outside my house, and the neighbours had outside lights on, so usually i would expect only a few stars, but last night was surprising clear - I have never seen so many stars before. A perfect night for it!

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I thought some of you might be interested anyway! If you have any photos that you made I'd love to see them.


*an unfortunate typo/iPad autocorrect in the thread title. Obviously I am talking about the meteor shower, not the meteor show!

Man! I forgot it was last night. Been working mornings though so it wouldn't have worked out for me to watch it.


Off tomorrow so maybe I can catch som tonight with my kids.

No I missed it.

I was too tired to stay up last night. They should still be very active a day after the peak, so I'll be watching tonight, weather permitting. It's cloudy right now, unfortunately. I doubt it'll get better in the next few hours, but we'll see.

Missed it D:

I would have liked to have seen it. Cloudy here last night though.

Too cloudy here as well. Nice pics Bonalste, thanks for sharing them.

I intended to, but I fell asleep watching TV.

Maybe tonight, but I suspect the same deal as last night. (I'm rarely up much past 9-10PM these days. Being up at 4-6AM most mornings.)

P.S.

Thanks for the pics.

Wow, you have an amazing view of the sky. I'm lucky to see stars - too cloudy, too urban. I will try to take a peek tonight, though. Anyone who missed last night should still get to enjoy the show tonight and tomorrow

Thanks for sharing!

You live in the suburbs and you can still see that many stars, ive see the difference between light pollution and no light pollution by going out to remote Australia and its amazing, im in regional Australia and id kill for a view of the night sky like that. Also great shots but a great panorama background helps alot. This year is the most amount of Meteors ive seen for decades, i could see 2 or 3 a night, where you'd be lucky to see one in 5 years.

I got offered to come in tomorrow for 8 hours over time...... So not gonna be staying up. I did just poke my head out. It semi urban where I am, but still too much nearby light interference to get as good a view as you do. If I'm not mistaken the redish star close to the moon atm is Mars. Maybe next year.... I think this is a yearly even anyways.

Actually I think the closest one is Saturn (kind of at the top of the 3 brightest stars near the moon that form a triangle) with Mars being the lower right one, unless I looked at google sky incorrectly ... which is possible.

Too cloudy. Didn't see 'nuthing.

On the final picture i took, does anyone have any idea what that large, bright object is about 1/3rd up the screen on the right-hand side? This was pointing straight up in the sky, maybe slightly southerly, from London.


And the truth is I cant see that many stars, which really is a shame. These pictures were taken with a wide-open aperture (f/1.8 on a 35mm lens), an 8 second exposure and an ISO of 1600. Basically, I configured my camera to let in as much light as possible - far more than my eyes can. Incidentally, I can't expose for more than 8 seconds on a 35mm lens as the stars start trailing.


But thank you for the positive comments about my photo's. I love astrophotography and want to save for a telescope but I just can't afford one. As for using a nice panorama: I would love to, but these were taken in my back garden. I couldn't go further away (like the seaside with a lighthouse in a cliff in the distance and the stars over rolling waves, for example) as I had children sleeping upstairs. Shame. I couldn't even go to the local park for even more light-free environments. My plan is to, at some point, travel to the New Forest, which should be pretty dark. Hopefully I can get the milky way. Unfortunately finding a time when my wife is at home to look after the kids, it is a weekend, it is a cloudless night and there is no visible moon is... well it is proving difficult!

Pretty sure that's Andromeda, our closest neighboring Galaxy.

Checked on Mobile Observatory and yes, Saturn would be closer to the moon but the one with a reddish hue sounds more like Mars further along the ecliptic and just above the horizon at UK latitude late twilight/night.

I viewed from Northern Florida at about 9:30 pm. It was below and to the right.

It would have been somewhat higher in the sky for you then. Arcturas, a red giant in Bootes, is also to the right and down of the moon right now, below Saturn.

I'd recommend anyone on PC to get the free Stellaris program rather than use Google Sky, and buying Mobile Observatory and/or Sky Safari Pro 4/5 for phones and tablets. It's all a far cry from having to mess about with a Phillips planisphere, like we had to in the olden days. ?

I actually have the Stellarus program. Just didn't bother to look.