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Subject: [Leica] Last night meteor shower
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:11:18 -0500
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happy for you that you were able to catch one.

a crop to the side of the frame with the roof line
(losing the out of focus blob on the right)
and a bit of work on enhancing the contrast of the streak
may make for a more memorable photograph

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist





On Aug 13, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Aram Langhans wrote:

> Tried my had until the sky got a bit overcast.  Not very active when I was 
> shooting at around 10:45.  I hear it was suppose to be peak between 
> midnight and 2AM.  I looked out about 12:30 and it was cloudy so I stayed 
> in bed.
> 
> This was my best shot:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/228399-1/meteor-1791-Edit.jpg
> 
> If you use your imagination you can see the meteor above the roof about 
> half way up the sky.  Maybe I'll try again tonight.  I only saw one while 
> setting up.  I exposed about 20 frames at 30 seconds and two frames caught 
> one. Also caught a plane that I thought was a meteor until I looked and 
> saw the light was intermittent.  Darn.  It looked pretty good.
> 
> 
> Aram
> 
> 
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