Dear Zuiks,
<< >6. It doesn't matter whether it's a 10 second or 5 minute exposure, as
>soon as you close the shutter the meteor will show up! :-)))
Murphy's Law! Universally applicable to anything that has the remotest
element of probability to it. >>
Yes, I remember trying to photograph Comet Hale-Bopp from my garden one night
in Spring 1997 (my Mother was very seriously ill in hospital and I had to do
something to try to lighten the mood) and I got one picture of the comet, and
then went to move the tripod just a little bit to get the constellation of
Cassiopeia nicely in the picture too.
As I looked up, tripod in hands, a gorgeous big fireball went across the sky,
right close to the comet and though Cassiopeia. Of couse, I missed it by 10
seconds. Got another shot of the comet and the constellation, but what a
photo I missed! It probably wouldn't have had the same line of sight effect
from anywhere else, except our region of the UK.
Dave Bellamy.
http://members.aol.com/synthchap/
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