Guess I've got some experimenting to do.

This is the article I was referring to:
" If all you have is a digital camera, then give it a try. Otherwise, use a film-based camera instead. The reason for this is that digital cameras suffer from thermal noise during exposures of more than a second or so. That's why CCD cameras designed for astrophotography have built in Peltier coolers"

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tu...s/meteor.shtml

meh