Re: [APML] Ursa Major Leonids

["Paul M. Rybski" <rybskip@idcnet.com>]

Title: Re: [APML] Ursa Major Leonids

Dear Tony,

     Superb photo!  To what do you ascribe the colors in the trails?  Changing color temperature?

Paul Rybski, Physics, UW-Whitewater

> Hello,
>  
>      One of my projects during the
> Leonid Meteors was to shoot Ursa Major during maximum activity for 30
> minutes, divided into 5 minute intervals. I used a 50mm f/1.4 stopped
> down to f/2. I have "assembled" all the meteors that
> recorded during the 30 minutes paying extreme attention to where they
> are... since this is a guided image it was fairly easy to guarantee
> placement by comparing frames. To my surprise the 50mm also recorded
> M51 and M101 which I have marked. The image
> is at:
>  
> http://www.astrophoto.com/UMLeonid.htm
>  
>       Hope you like
> it,
>  
>       Have a good
> one,
>  
>            
> Tony