Sunday, April 22, 2012

Lyrids

So the Lyrids meteor shower was scheduled to pummel the earth with debris from a comet last night, achieving its maximum between 8pm and 2am.  As a good nerd, I decided to shortcut nature and use my camera instead.  I programmed the camera to take a 25 second exposure every 30 seconds, thereby capturing over 80% of the available meteor capturing time.  I shot over 750 pictures.  The vast number of meteorites was totally staggering.  Out of the 750 images, I managed to find two.  YES!  two whole images with a meteorite!  Glad I did not waste the evening trying to see them live.  Here is the best one:


1 comment:

Terrill and Emily said...

Terrill was doing the same thing that night! You 2 are so much alike :)