A poor meteor shower, but fairly good results.

A few days back we were told that a meteor shower would be very visible in our eastern sky from midnight until three a.m. and being the retired old guy I am, I figured I could stay up after the late show and go out and see if I could see anything.  Now I should mention that I live in town and the light pollution is usually pretty bad, but luckily at that hour it isn’t so ugly.  I turned off the lights in the house after taking my tripod and camera out.  I staggered back out, trying to be careful not to kick anything.  It was so dark that it took me a minute or two just to locate my tripod.  I looked up and the few stars I could see seemed to sparkle but after waiting at least a half hour I still hadn’t seen any of the meteor shower.   So I started concentrating on the stars I could see.  I got several shots and although they didn’t look that great at first, after I took them off my camera and put them on my computer they began to look a little better.  I had to bring out the pictures which at first were very under exposed.  I think they turned out pretty well for an amateur.