On
            the night of August 11 - 12, the fish eye lens was put into service
            on the Xti, and the first all night automated test run of the
            new robotic barn door mounts was initiated. Unfortunately, the
            night was mostly cloudy, and out of 7 hours of continuous shooting
            - 70 exposures, only one bright meteor was recorded around 2am.
            Well, here it is, and Ive enlarged the portion of the frame with
            the meteor so you can see the color change from a dull green,
            through orange, red and finally yellow at a terminal burst as
            the meteor goes from left to right. North is down in this frame.
 

            

            
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Instrument:  Sigma 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens at f/4
Platform:  Robotic Barn Door Mount
Camera:  Hutech Modified Canon XTi @ ISO800
Exposure:  10m
Filters:  None
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  6/10, Transparency 1/10
Outside Temperature:  60F
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS2
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