Leonids Meteor shower

Well last night we went out and tried to capture some of these meteors, although we saw around 6 and one that was close enough to see the smoke trail I only managed to capture this lone one

Wasn't a stellar year (no pun intended) for the Leonids. And, as was typical for sky events over the last several years, we were clouded in anyway - until they broke around 4AM and it was 16 degrees F. At ~5-10 an hour, I might have seen one before giving up and going in.

How would you know where the frakking meteor or comet would appear??
Just set up the camera & wait for something to start flying overhead?
Trying to understand how this works
Cool pic Scottie

WhiteLight said:

How would you know where the frakking meteor or comet would appear??
Just set up the camera & wait for something to start flying overhead?
Trying to understand how this works
Cool pic Scottie

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Yeah you need to be lucky but with events like Leonids you need to focus are the Leo constellation etc. But I missed some rippers.

Great timing Scott.

gqtuazon said:

Great timing Scott.

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Thanks mate.

WhiteLight said:

How would you know where the frakking meteor or comet would appear??
Just set up the camera & wait for something to start flying overhead?
Trying to understand how this works
Cool pic Scottie

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typically what you want to do is figure out the radiant (where the meteor originate from) and find a nice wide piece of sky.shoot with as short/wide a focal range as you can ,focus on infinity,shoot with a long ss like 15-30 (if you set it for too long all your stars will streak) sec and play around with different iso's to gauge light pollution and pick one with a look you like. use a shutter release cable and start shooting.its really that simple.the hard part is catching one...lol..i usually shoot for several hours continuously and check them later.