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I photographed the 2007 Perseid and Aurigid meteor showers from my back yard.
Early in the morning on Friday August 12, I drove to the top of the Santa Ynez Mountains to observe the Perseid Meteor Shower. I observed for 100 minutes. In that time, I counted 51 Perseid meteors and two erratic meteors (not associated with the Perseid Shower). I shot 94 thirty-second time exposures with a Nikon D70 set to an effective film speed of 1600 ASA. I used an 18mm f3.5 lens. On those 94 exposures I found four meteor streaks.
I drove up to the crest of the Santa Ynez Mountains
above Santa Barbara at 3:00 in the morning
on Thursday, August 12, 2004 to photograph the Perseid
meteor shower.
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