Leonid Meteor - November 17/18, 2000 AD
The two bright objects are Jupiter to the left, Saturn to the right, M45
also known as the Pleiades were the meteor starts, and the "V" shaped
Haydes cluster is below Jupiter. The photo was taken from my balcony in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on November 17/18, 2000. I had just started
the exposure when the fireball appeared. I used a Soviet made Zenit B
camera with a 50 mm f/1.8 lens and Kodak Gold 400 ASA film.
Re-entry of Soviet/Russian Molniya 3 rocket booster - Aug.11/12,
2001 - 0342 UT
The images go from the longest one as I first saw it about max altitude
above horizion near the constellation Delphinus and the two shorter
images as it began to descend towards the SE, were the last image it was
starting to go into clouds over the ocean nearing the end of it's burnup.
Note a "fragment" to the left of two images.
I used my Soviet made Zenit-B camera with a 50mm f/1.7 lens
and Kodak Gold 400 ASA film. The exposures are close to 10 seconds +/-
5 seconds. I shot the photos from the roof of Dalhousie University in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Lat== N44d 36' Long= W63d 36'
Leonid Meteors of November 17/18, 2001 AD
I took these photos among others of the meteor shower from our
observatory at St.Croix, Nova Scotia, Canada. I used my Soviet
Zenit-B camera with a 50mm f/1.7 lens and Kodak Gold 400 ASA
film. Exposures varied from 30sec for the smoke trail to 5 minutes
for others. Observations ran from 0600 UT to 1000 UT. A realistic
estimate of the number of meteors seen at the peak near 0900 UT was
300 per hour.
Leonid fireball of November 18/19, 2002 AD
The photo was taken from the roof at Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I used my Soviet Zenit-B
camera with a 50mm f/1.7 lens and Kodak Gold 400 ASA film.
The -6 fireball occured about 1020 UT near Orion in the southwest
just as twilight was begining in the east.
The Moon was still above the horizion and to the right
of the area, but was covered by clouds. As I started the exposure I
was distracted by another Leonid and lost count on the exposure time,
which was past 40 seconds. The fireball left a 1 second trail and produced
a slight terminal burst at the end.
I was lucky, after the film was developed I noticed that it was on my
last frame!
Total Lunar Eclipse - March 3, 2007
Images taken from my apartment balcony in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Time: 2205-0010 UT
Telescope: Antares 105mm, f/10, refractor with a 40mm (25x) eyepiece and
my Olympus C-750 Digital Camera mounted over eyepiece.
The #1 image was at about 2206 UT was with camera and tripod only, at 1.6
seconds f/3.5 and ISO 400 and at 35x zoom. The bright star near 9pm
position is 59 Leonis.
The #2 image was at about 2340 UT and shot through the telescope at 5x
zoom 1.6 second exposure, f/3.5, ISO 400
The larger image #3 at 2359 UT was at about 15x zoom, 1.6 second exposure,
ISO 400 and using Registax I messed with 3 images to enhance it.
Comet 17P Holmes in outburst - October 25, 2007 @ 2256 UT
Full image taken from apartment driveway with my Olympus
C-750 digital camera set at 6 seconds, f/3.2, 400 ISO.
Even with the Full Moon and light pollution comet is visible!
Comet 17P Holmes in outburst - November 04/05, 2007 @ 0000 UT
Larger image at 0000 UT was with Olympus C-750 digital camera set at 10
seconds, f/3.2, 400 ISO and maximum 40x zoom. I took 4 images and used
Registax to try enhance the image.Images taken from my balcony in
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Venus,Jupiter,Moon - February 04, 2008 @ 1029 UT
Image taken from roof of Dalhousie University Physics building
in Halifax,Nova Scotia.Olympus C-750 digital camera set at 3.2
seconds exposure, f/3.2, 400 ISO.
Total Lunar Eclipse - February 20/21,2008
The Total Lunar Eclipse was very nice, in the imgaes before
totality, note the bluish color between the bright area and the
eclipsed part.
Images taken with Olympus C-750 digital camera mounted over
my 40mm eyepiece on the 4" f/10 refractor. I zoomed in with
the camera to about 10x so that the image would fit. Images
start from 0245 UT to 0306 UT.
The wide angle shot was a 2 second exposure at about 20x zoom
showing Saturn to the left at about 0300 UT. I took the images
from my balcony in Halifax,Nova Scotia, Canada.
Lightning - April 26,2009
I was just looking at a cloud over by the Fairview container pier
and decided to take an exposure,I mounted the camera on tripod and
began shooting the 5 second exposures when I saw the flash and crack!
why I had the camera at a high f/# I don't know, but this was a really
lucky shot. I had not see the updated forecast for possible thundershowers taht
night. I used my Canon Rebel 350D camera. 18-55mm lens set to 55mm
at f/7.5 or f/8 and 400 ISO. Guess I'll be able to get meteors!
Two Perseid Fireballs - August 13/14,2009
These 2 fireballs captured from my balcony in Halifax,Nova Scotia.
First one appeared at 11:15pm while the next one was at 3:43am
and left a 2 second smoke trail. The bright object in upper right
is the Last Quarter Moon and the Pleaides are to the fireballs right.
Canon Rebel XT 350D camera lens set near 20mm fl,20 second exposures,
f/3.5 and 400 ISO.