Perseids Meteor
2am, despite the slight drizzle in my area, I decide to venture out to some other parts of KL in hope to capture the Perseids Meteor. This image was captured around 3am just when I was giving up, stacked 5 exposures together on the camera, trigger by remote with mirror lock-up to minimize any shakes. It’s not exactly like what we see anywhere else but heck, it’s not often that I get to capture a faint image of the meteor shower right?
I actually duplicate the images on top of each other via photoshop in the hope to brighten the showers up so we can actually see it here but I think my attempt at it just make it look fake. Anyhow, this is the only one of two I manage to capture with a faint hint of a meteor shower. The other one looks pathetically like this.
One of the problem we have here is the haze that envelopes the city and the heavy cloud. So it’s really more of a game of catching the right timing for the cloud to give way before we could snap. When I caught the above images and showed it to the guys around me (Despite the D300′s small display), they were more excited than I was with what I’ve captured. Anyway, haze and heavy cloud is just a bad enemy when we want to captWhat do you think?
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DanielCtw
At least you did capture something.
Darn.. I should really put my D300 to good use also next time
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Aug 13, 2009 @ 10:55 am
SaeWei
Did you make a wish? Did you? Did you??
Aug 13, 2009 @ 11:29 am
Michael Yip
@DanielCtw: you better do.. if not it’ll just be a waste sitting at home.
@SaeWei: no i didn’t. :p
Aug 13, 2009 @ 11:36 am
Cindy
I never seen one before in my life.
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Aug 13, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
kimberlycun
mike these pictures are cool as hell!
Aug 13, 2009 @ 12:02 pm
Michael Yip
@Cindy: Now you can see lor… not that nice pic that we see from oversea but heck, i’m happy with what i captured.
@Kimberlycun: Thank You
First attempt at it, stupid haze doesn’t help. 
Aug 13, 2009 @ 12:06 pm
KY
ahh, still a pretty good capture nonetheless!
Aug 13, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
Tian Chad
Now I saw meteor from Mike’s blog. nice~! ;p
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Aug 13, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
Michael Yip
@KY: Thanks
@Tian Chad: LOL … why? you expecting other things?
Aug 13, 2009 @ 4:09 pm
Daniel
Michael, where did you capture it? which part of KL?
Aug 13, 2009 @ 4:42 pm
Michael Yip
@Daniel: Little Genting, just need to be patient though as the haze and cloud’s awefully heavy.
Aug 13, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
hitomi
Mike, you d best man! I was sleeping haha…thanks for the pica!!
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Aug 13, 2009 @ 11:09 pm
CWKen
at least u saw. I was too tired to wake up n watch, n it was raining here at home zzz
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Aug 14, 2009 @ 2:41 am
EVo
Hey yo mike! u managed to get it! i tertidor while waitinf wei..and too many clouds la. asteroid come crashing to earth also can’t see
Aug 14, 2009 @ 10:58 am
Michael Yip
@CWKen: how did your interview go? Yes, it was drizzling, that’s why i went somewhere else.
@EVo: LOL … yes, there’s clouds everywhere but only thing can do is just try to spot an opening and blast away
Aug 14, 2009 @ 11:05 am