@hayhand02, @buddingphotographer, @rmadaris, I unfortunately did not get any meteor photos for at least two reasons. The first was that on Sunday night (the night of the shower), I was feeling very exhausted. A few of my siblings had gotten ill, and I was coming down with it too. The thought of getting up at two in the morning didn’t appeal much over a good night’s sleep, so I thought I’d just grab it the next night (a few less meteors, but a decent show still). However, I felt worse and fully came down with the bug on Monday, so I never got outside with my camera. On top of that, our skies were obscured with wildfire smoke from several somewhat nearby forests (within a couple of hundred miles or so), so even if I felt well, I wouldn’t have been able to see much.
However, I am feeling much better now and the smoke is gone as well, thankfully (and been replaced with regular clouds), but I’m not sure how many meteors are going to be left.
So… no pics. Better luck with the Leonids in November, perhaps? I might try my hand at capturing an Iridium flare sometime before then (that’s a satellite glinting sunlight off an antennae or some other shiny part), as they are predictable, regular, and I have an app that tells me when they’ll happen (and probably where they are, though I haven’t figured out the app enough yet).
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