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| Summary: The 2004 Perseid meteor shower peaked on August 11th and 12. Sky watchers saw plenty of Earthgrazers and a lovely pre-dawn conjunction of Venus and the crescent moon. Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | This is Page 4 Got
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P-M Hedén,
Riala/Norrtälje, Sweden Aug. 12 |
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A fantastic night in Sweden with over hundred of Perseid meteors in three hours between 11-12/8 2004. I managed to capture some meteors with a SLR camera Zenit, Helios 58mm objective f/4 and Fuji Provia 400F. |
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Bob Yen,
Hungry Valley, CA Aug. 11 |
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Fuji Super G800Plus, 20 minute exposure One fireball had multiple flashes which lit up the ground. The other fireball was 90 degrees! |
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Paul
Evans, Big Collin, Co.Antrim, Northern Ireland. Aug. 11 |
#1, more | Taken during the EAAS BBQ/Perseid Watch 11/12 August 2004. |
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Tago
Shusaku, Nishi-tonami, Toyama, Japan Aug. 12 |
#1, more | A Perseid meteor passing the constellation Cygnus the Swan. Exposed from Aug. 12, 17:32 UT-, 4-min exposure x 4 frames blended (to reduce noise), Canon EF35mmF2.0 at F2.0, Fujicolor Superia 800, guided with Takahashi EM-1, film scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II, enhanced with AstroArts StellaImage4.0 and Adobe Photoshop 5.0 |
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Jason A.C. Brock,
Roundtimber Texas on 8/12/04 Oct. 25 |
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One of the best Perseid displays ive seen created some very low horizon perseid as well as a few very bright fireballs. Canon Digital Rebel at 1600 ISO, 30-45sec at f2.8-3.2 |
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Chris Peterson,
Guffey, Colorado, USA Aug. 12 |
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Composite of 133 Perseid meteors captured by a video allsky camera between UT 04:41 and 12:18. The Moon and Venus are seen rising at the left. The dimmest meteors are about magnitude 1 and the brightest are about magnitude -8. |
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Andrei Chtcherbatchenko,
Arlington, Washington, USA Aug. 12 |
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Technical details: f/1.8, Fuji Superia 800, manual shutter. All pictures were taken between 1:45 and 3:45 A.M. PST August 12th, 2004. |
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Aldo Bassi,
Erice Mountain (Sicily), Italy at about 600 meters on sea level. Aug. 12 |
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A bright Perseid meteor taken with a Canon 300D at ISO3200, 30 second exposure on fixed tripod. 24mm lens f3,5. |
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David Rosenkrantz,
Holcomb Valley, CA (Big Bear lake) Aug. 11 |
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Perseids from Holcomb Valley, CA near big bear. 8m F4 ISO800 Canon 300D Digital Rebel kit lens Some light polution from cities below the mountains. |
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George Varros,
Mount Airy Maryland Aug. 10 |
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Single video field of a tracked meteor. Imaged with a PC-164 High Res video camera and 35mm F/1.2 lens. FOV is approximately 8x6 degrees. More images at www.gvarros.com |
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Yukihiro
Kida, Hamada, Shimane, Japan. Aug. 13 |
#1, #2 | Photo details: Pentax and Vixen SLR camera,Pentax 28mm and 50mm lens,Fuji film 800 ASA, 60sec exposure each. |
| more images: from Robert Hoetink of Enschede, The Netherlands; from Tuomas Tenkanen of Riihimäki, Finland; from Aleksander Trebacz at Mt Lubomir, Weglowka, Poland; from R J Cobain of Bangor, Northern Ireland; from Jun Wang of Zipengshan, Anhui Province, China; from Mike Hutchinson of Muncie, Indiana, USA |
