1st night, soft-lad here stopped outside, camera on tripod at the ready. Between 10pm and 2am (7 coffees, 14 ciggies, 4 hours of “The Navy lark” on the Mp3) I saw 10 isolates. Rubbish. Over a 4 hour period on any night I would expect 10 or 12. 3 per hour is quite normal. About 7 years ago (Maybe 10 my brain’s gone), the Leonids peaked at 6,000 per HOUR! Now that was a shower to photo! But it was cloudy for me.
That was in the days of Fillum. I did a lot of night shots, 45 minute exposures. They say this is a bad thing to do with the Digatal camera because the sensor is “On” for too long and will burn out. I found this out after stating that I took a 20 minute shot (Which then took another 18 minutes to write to the card BTW). What do you think? (Makes sense to me)
Oh, B4 anyone says it….it is not the same as taking hundreds of shots at 1 second intervals and doing a blend. A 45 minute burn at f11 will pick out the faintest stars, and also show the colours of the stars. A multi-shot wont.