My First Meteor Shower Photo!With the annual Perseid meteor shower at its peak, I set up the camera under clear skies to try again at photographing a meteor. After a number of years trying I finally managed to get one on digital film!
OK, so it's not much to look at (if you can't see it, look at the centre of the image and up a bit), but it is my first.
I had my camera (Canon 350d with Canon 17-85 EF-S IS) focused on infinity, manual 25-second exposure at ISO 400. Timer shutter release and I just let it take one pic after another, hoping that a meteor would pass in the right place and at the right time. If anybody has any tips on how to get better meteor pictures, I'd like to hear from you because I was more than a little disappointed with this. To see why, have a look at the Perseid gallery on SpaceWeather.com and look at some other pics.
