The 2018 Perseids
This past weekend I spent Saturday night to Sunday morning at Observatory Park for the Perseid meteor shower! This was my third Perseid overnighter at OP. I set up just before 8pm Saturday night and my friend Jynjyr joined us for a night of counting meteors. I started officially counting around 9:30 pm and finished up around 6 am. (woo!)
Total count for the night: 70. My record is still 201. The weather wasn't perfect-the humidity was in the 90s, and it was on again off again clouds. Also-lightning from Canada-I kid you not! CANADA. We started noticing lightning flashes around 11 pm-they were bright enough to wreck havoc with our night vision. I kept checking the radar and there was a fairly large storm cell around London, Ontario-but nothing on the U.S. side. It was quite fascinating (and annoying-as I mentioned before-it messed with our night vision).
I was hoping to get some decent meteor shots-and was really excited-this was my first Perseid shower (although not my first meteor shower) at Observatory Park since purchasing a new wide-angle lens (14mm) for my Pentax DSLR last year. Unfortunately the clouds and humidity it seemed to be more of a hassle and I quickly abandoned taking photos and just concentrated on counting meteors. Maybe next time!
It's been a while since I posted photos-ever since Picasa was discontinued, I have been hesitant to use Google photos on my blogs (actually, I've been lazy to set it up.) It's about time I start posting photos again, so I'll use my first (and so far, only) image of a Perseid that I captured in 2015:
Nite all!
Total count for the night: 70. My record is still 201. The weather wasn't perfect-the humidity was in the 90s, and it was on again off again clouds. Also-lightning from Canada-I kid you not! CANADA. We started noticing lightning flashes around 11 pm-they were bright enough to wreck havoc with our night vision. I kept checking the radar and there was a fairly large storm cell around London, Ontario-but nothing on the U.S. side. It was quite fascinating (and annoying-as I mentioned before-it messed with our night vision).
I was hoping to get some decent meteor shots-and was really excited-this was my first Perseid shower (although not my first meteor shower) at Observatory Park since purchasing a new wide-angle lens (14mm) for my Pentax DSLR last year. Unfortunately the clouds and humidity it seemed to be more of a hassle and I quickly abandoned taking photos and just concentrated on counting meteors. Maybe next time!
It's been a while since I posted photos-ever since Picasa was discontinued, I have been hesitant to use Google photos on my blogs (actually, I've been lazy to set it up.) It's about time I start posting photos again, so I'll use my first (and so far, only) image of a Perseid that I captured in 2015:
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| A Perseid and the Pleiades : August 13th, 2015 |
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