So ... I was sitting watching a ballgame on Tuesday night when it dawned on me that the Perseid meteor shower was about to peak. I was in the country, with a nice view of the sky and without a lot of lights around ... so I figured I would try and catch one of the early "earthgrazers" just after sunset as Perseus rose and the moon hadn't.
It was already 8:45pm, so I grabbed my camera and ran outside to set it up ... I quickly set the camera to take one 30 second exposure every 45 seconds ... and ran back inside to watch the rest of the game.
I came back out about an hour and a half later and got the camera. When I looked, I realized pretty quickly my guess at the exposure was a few stops under-exposed at least and figured I had totally blown it ... I don't have much experience shooting stars, and so I wasn't surprised my last second experiment seemed to fail ...
... but ... after a second look tonight, and with a little aggressive processing ... looks like I got one ...
Next year, I'm gonna find a body of water and get a reflected shot as it could be cool.
So here it is ... my really under-exposed earthgrazer:
