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Post by ChrisV on May 4, 2016 10:59:59 GMT
These will be appearing in our pre dawn skies later this week. Is it possible to catch these ?
If possible I'd like try try but not quite sure what's the best way to do it: - My refractor which can get 1.5 degrees with big FR. - Or I got a 150deg all sky lens with my zwo camera.
Then exposure time. How long ? I was just going to let it run a capture a pile of shots and see if i got lucky ?
A stupid idea ?
Chris
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Post by davy on May 4, 2016 12:08:10 GMT
Zwo and allsky lens will do the job.
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Post by Dragon Man on May 4, 2016 12:41:18 GMT
Chris, you definitely won't need a telescope. Sometimes even naked eye isn't wide enough to catch them because even though they come from Aquarius direction they shot out all over the sky in every direction at a rate of about 1 every two minutes. Bright ones may last as long as 2 seconds. I have seen meteors captured with an All-Sky camera but it doesn't look all that spectacular. It works, but apart from being boring to watch they are a real letdown compared to the real thing. The best way to capture the Eta Aquarids is by Naked Eye and the image stored in the Human Memory. But if you really want to record the event, an all-sky lens at 30 second exposures should be fine.
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