Lone Leonid
Damn! I shot 24 exposures of Ektachrome 400 on the night of November 18/19 and managed to capture just a single Leonid meteor. It’s the little blur heading into the trees on the right-hand side of the picture. The big fellow in the center of the frame is Jupiter sitting right in the middle of Gemini.
I was expecting better results because there was some good action in the frame of a number of exposures, but they just weren’t bright enough to register properly against the ambient light of suburban Tokyo. I was using a 28mm lens on a Nikon FM2 with exposure times of 30 to 50 seconds.
My failures aside, some people were able to get some great images. The other interesting follow-up from the whole show is how wrong most of the predictions were.
It’s pretty hard to complain about my lack of photographs; it’s not like I’ll ever forget what I saw that night. I got Etsuko and Jun out of bed at about 3am and they got to see a bunch, too. At school the next day, Jun discovered that she was the only child in her class who saw any: none of the other kids’ parents seemed to have bothered. Isn’t that sad.
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Posted to General Rants • 2001.11.29 (Thu) • 16:54
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