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HELP- Shooting the meteor shower

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STAUSS
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Anyone got any advice on how to shoot the meteor shower?  as a novice photographer this is not within my realm of understanding so i was hoping some of you more PRO kids could tell me whats up.  what lens, settings, ect will be workin the best?
thanks. 
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eheath
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Hope you have xray glasses, gonna be cloudy in utah.
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STAUSS
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im in vermont... clear skies.
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eheath
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you lucky reddog
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TWoods
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Do you have a canon? do you have an intervelometer?

There's a couple ways to do it. Some people do a ton of long exposures, delete every frame without a meteor trail, stack them in photoshop, and then erase out holes and merge layers together to get a bunch of unmoving stars and a bunch of trails. I think that's what I would do.
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All times are Eastern (-4); Currently it's 1:23PM