Lyrid

On Tuesday April 23rd at 2:00 a.m. I joined my daughter and two of her photo friends in an empty parking lot at Mountsberg Conservation Area to photograph (or try) the Lyrid meteor shower.  After almost four hours of continuous shooting of 30 second shots and about halfway though my 300 frames and 2 batteries, I was bale to capture ONE meteorite.  My Daughter was luckier and got 2.  And everyone's feet were freezing

Meteors are tough to capture because you do not know when they are going to happen, so you have to shoot continuously.....and if they are as infrequent as they were on that Tuesday night...one could walk away with no captures.  One of the sites I was looking at (blog)stated this.    It is better to go out and get a few shots, that to stay indoors.....and get nothing...

All shots were...30sec.....f5.6....iso  500.....focused on infinity..   enjoy.  In case you cannot find it....look in the upper right of the photo about 1/4 frame down....

Just added a second photo.  This is a stacked image of 55 frames, which includes the processed frame above.  At 30 seconds a shot (almost a half hour) frame 44 was the one that caught the meteor.  Colour processing is a bit different when combining images there is not as much control (for me) as a single image.  (April 2013)