On Monday night I was standing out on my deck admiring the clear night sky when a meteor burned across the sky. Beautiful to say the least, it began as a bluish white streak, went to green and exploded into a shower of scattered sparkles as it burned out. Total silence of course. A bit later another smaller one. My mind kicked into gear and I thought what a great shot it would make if I could catch one of these babies with the camera. I set things up on the tripod and took many shots but did not get one shot of a meteor, in fact I only saw one other and it was not in my camera's field of view. I did however get a few interesting starfield shots. Nothing great.
Starfield 1 If you look at the stars in this shot you will see a variety of colors. Hot stars burn red, cool ones blue. In the upper left is the constellation Cassiopia and to the lower right is the Pleides star cluster. The large orange planet to the right of the Pliedes is the planet Mars.
I intend to try as the weather permits to capture a meteor, and, if anyone out there should happen to try their luck also, I would be interested in seeing the shot and knowing how you did it.
