redstone SG Sure. Geminids meteor shower. Radiant point, constellation Gemini Peak would be the night/early morning of 13/14 December. It's one of the most intense showers, meteors per minute.
soleachip SG Hey cool. Perhaps we can all go watch it together Organize an outing then we can go photography meteor showers!!!!!
redstone SG I've watched showers from Dover before. On the last showers, I counted 12 meteors in the space of hours. We were in a small group, so we recorded all the meteors. In total, around 23 meteors.
redstone SG By the time you see the meteor, u press the shutter, its long gone. The slowest meteor lasts for 1 second
soleachip SG Cheem. Can be done leh. Meteor shower photo session! woohoo... All you need is an SLR and a tripod plus cable release
redstone SG I dunno how u're going to shoot meteors. I never tried it before too. Least lighting is more predictable den meteors. Maybe overseas is a better idea for meteor photography. Hmm.. it seems u need long exposure, low ISO setting. And lots of luck, since in Sg only the brightest meteors can be seen, due to urban glare. For astro photography u need a equatorial mount, for those ultra long exposure (say a few mins) without the star trials. This ould be rigged to mini computer which will follow the earth's rotation as it moves. Dont really need this for meteor I suppose.
soleachip SG Hmmm, I've never done night shooting before but I'm thinking we only need an SLR to set to B mode and high ISO (for film usually 400 but on digital cameras I may go on ISO800 - 1000), tripod and then just choose a very dark spot away from the urban lights. Never done it before so I'm not sure but albeit disappointing results, fun experiments may yield nice shots too. Thanks for all the info!
