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RE: [APML] Is It Posible?

Matt,

Thanks for your reply, your answer is what I was afraid of, so I´ll try to
go to some darker skies. I´m not sure if it would be possible to go to some
really dark skies but I´ll try to get at least some mag 5.0 skies or better.
I´ll be shooting with a 50mm f/1.8 and some 400 film and cross my fingers.
The saddest part of all is that even if I do get some nice shots, It´s
practically impossible to scan my negatives and get a 20 mb tiff. I even
have some developed negs of some fixed tripod shots.

Thanks again

Roberto


-----Mensaje original-----
De: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org]En nombre
de Matt BenDaniel
Enviado el: Domingo, 17 de Noviembre de 2002 01:55 a.m.
Para: astro-photo@seds.org
Asunto: Re: [APML] Is It Posible?

Roberto,

Even though the moon will be nearly full, man-made light pollution will
still have a detrimental effect. Also any particulates or moisture in the
air will reflect moonlight. Going to a dark site would help a lot. That's
what I'll be doing.

That said, you can still try to photograph the Leonids from a light polluted
site. You will not be able to record average meteors, but you'll be able to
record the brightest ones. If your lens is f/2.8 and you're using 400 speed
film, you might expose for up to 15 seconds each frame. I'd wait until the
meteor storm ramps up before shooting. Remember, the generally predicted
peak will be just before or during morning twilight. A roll of 36 exposures
will only get you about 10 minutes of recording time, so you'll probably
have to shoot a lot of film to get a couple good ones, and that's assuming a
good storm happens.

Good luck, and please let us know about any resulting images that you post.

Matt


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