That was a great video for the light conditions, and using CHDK! It's hard to tell the meteors from satellites and airplanes in a long exposure, though. Airplanes make dotted lines. Satellites are only visible until 2 hours or so after sunset. Meteors are really fast, so they only appear in 1 frame. If it appears in 2 frames, it's not a meteor. I'm not sure any of the streaks on your video were meteors, but it's still pretty cool!
Perseid meteors all project back to the constellation Perseus, hence the name. The peak was on Sunday morning around 2 a.m. because Perseus was well above the horizon, so you could see more meteors going in all directions from Perseus.
I took this video with a Panasonic FZ150 and external timer. I processed the RAW files with Photoshop Lightroom, which does batch processing with a single click. I used an external timer set to 70 seconds, with 30 second exposure time, 30 second dark frame (can't turn off), and 10 second save time.
I took the camera and tripod up to Moraine Lake Friday and started it shooting when I went to sleep. It lasted 2 hours Friday, and I didn't get any definite meteors. After climbing South Sister on Saturday, I had just enough energy left to set up the camera Saturday night with a totally fresh battery. It lasted 4.5 hours and I got lots of true Perseid meteors in the last hour. The camera died right at the peak of the shower, but the moon was rising and washing things out any way. This is in a wilderness area, so the dimmer stars and Milky Way are visible.
Anyway, here's the video I made:
Perseid Meteor Shower - August 10-11, 2012And here's the brightest definite Perseid meteor I captured. Note that the tail of the meteor is greenish colored as the outer layers of rock start burning off minerals. Then it turns white as it burns up completely.
