This was the only meteor which I got on film from the 2002 Leonids which I thought was worth including in my gallery. I gambled on being able to take photos later on(during and after the peak @ 4UT) but,by the time I started,clouds were already covering more than 50% of the sky. I was lucky just to get this one shot,out of 2 rolls of 36 exp. film that I shot... the others were either too faint,or washed out due to the moon and haze,especially on the other roll of film I shot,which was 800 speed! To make matters worse,my equatorial mount refused to work during the Leonids(no idea why,but it worked fine the next day when I tested it!),so I was unable to track the stars as I had planned,but had to instead be happy with images from what was effectively a very expensive fixed tripod :(
Date : Nov. 19th 2002
Location : Mountains somewhere close to Santa Luchia on the Island of Gran Canaria,the Canary Islands
Technical Info : Canon 50/1.2 L @ 1.2,Provia 400
Exposure : 1 min
Scanning/Post Processing : Scanned with Nikon 4000ED. Edited in Photoshop
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