Determined to capture a meteorite with my little point and shoot Canon S95, I dutifully sat in the back yard for two hours, from 1am to after 2am, pointing the camera upon the tripod to the Southern heavens.
I had the camera set for 15 second time exposures, with a two delay on the shutter. I would then hope, like lightening, that a meteorite would appear during this interval. After the 15 seconds were up, the camera would take another 30 seconds to process the shot before allowing another.
It was during this interval that the meteorites would appear! I did see around a dozen, with one dazzling, which would have made a good photograph. I determined to keep doing this 15 second and wait process until the battery died in the camera. In all, I probably took nearly a hundred frames, deleting them when no meteorite appeared, which was all but one I captured. It was a faint trail in the lower part of the frame.
This photograph is not that one. This was just a photo of the awesome heavens.
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