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View from New Fancy View, Nr Parkend Forest of Dean Gloucestershire.
Cinderford in the distance.
The Perseid meteor shower is caused by debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle.
Every 133 years, the huge comet swings through the inner part of our Solar System and leaves behind a trail of dust and gravel.
When Earth passes through the debris, specks hit our atmosphere at 140,000mph and disintegrate in flashes of light.
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It was the annual Perseid Meteor Shower tonight, and apparently conditions were more favourable than they have been in years. So I spent hours sitting on the roof with my camera. I saw loads and loads of meteors without managing to photograph them. But then I got lucky with this shot.
It's official, I'm interesting!
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Milky-way seen through Mobius Arch, Alabama Hills.
Me and my old friend Mac headed out to Mobius Arch over the weekend in search of a dark place to catch the Perseid Meteor Shower. Here is what we took while we were shooting the meteor shower in the opposite direction!
Camera - Nikon D800
Lens - Tokina 16-28mm f2.8
I took this three years ago while out with Renee and Nan. Besides the large meteor upper middle there's a couple of smaller ones. (mid Milky Way and above the big tree) The next couple of nights should be great for the Perseids.
Two Perseid meteoroids streak over the skies above the Olympic Mountains during the early morning hours of the meteor showers peak showing. The Perseid's are dust from the comet Swift-Tuttle, a comet discovered in July 16, 1862 and making it's orbits near Earth every 133 years.
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I wanted to share another composite meteor shower image, this one from the 2010 Perseids Meteor Shower as seen in Teller County, CO. Here I am looking more or less behind the radiant of the shower looking west into the Milky Way. Amazingly, I managed to catch a few meteors even in this position. You can see the one I posted from this shower earlier this year in the comments below.
Image Notes: A three shot composite.
A meteor falls during the Perseid Meteor Shower on August 12, 2012. Taken from Cattle Point (Uplands), Victoria, BC, Canada.
This is a composite of seventeen 3m29s shots (approx. one hour total), with the meteor falling in the final one.
Ok, we all know that a "shooting star" is not a star at all. It is a meteor. That's besides the point!
So, this week, I took my camera out 3 nights in a row, in hopes to capture some of the meteor shower. At the end of the second night, the supposed peak, I captured over 40 shooting stars! The most I have ever caught in one night!
I did something a bit different with the processing this time. I stacked all 918 images together, as usual, and of course you couldn't see a single streak! Why? Because it was intense! Nothing but 8 hours of trails of the stars. And, so many airplane trails! Some unusual flight patterns and they were so distracting. This time, I took a window with the brightest meteors, and stacked between plane trails, so it was "clean" and this is what I got. A total of 26 images, with three meteors. One I cannot find, I might have cropped it out, lol. But the two stand out and that's what I wanted!
Geek talk:
26 images, all of which are 30 seconds long, ISO 1250 at f/2. Stacked in StarStaX and then processed in Lightroom 5.
Conifers point to the heavens and the traces left by Perseid meteors crashing through the atmosphere over a meadow near the Mountain Research Station. The new moon made for a great dark sky this year, although a layer of clouds over Denver/ Boulder lit up the eastern sky more than I would have liked.
This is a compilation of a base photo with the northern part of the Milky Way cutting across the sky and the constellation Perseus toward the bottom, and 10 additional photos culled out of the 700+ I took (or more accurately, the camera took while I admired the sky) between 11 pm and 4 am, adjusted for Earth’s rotation. Amazingly 2 of the meteor traces were in the base photo. There were some beautifully bright shooting stars this night!
Well, I tried. The Perseid Meteor Shower gave me a complete light show and I had no idea how to shoot it. I was out there for over two hours with my shutter just snapping away. I know my lens was open on a number of passes, but I just don't think I had the equipment to really capture them. It was fun anyway. I love night time excursions.
I didn't really care for this, it was a shot in the dark (hehehe). But I look a little ghostly which is kind of cool. This was the first picture I tried to resize in Photoshop, not sure if it degraded the quality at all? I've never had to do that before but Flickr was just being shit.
And i wish I could swim. I would have jumped in butt ass naked.
Perseid meteor shower seen from Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. First time trying to do this type of night shots.
For how visible they are to the eye the Perseids seem surprisingly good at avoiding the camera. That said, this one thankfully got got.
It's taken from the Wild Horses National Monument, up on the hill just outside Vantage. It was astoundingly dark, with perfectly clear skies and the Milky Way going from horizon to horizon. I have never seen so many stars.
Nikon D800
20mm f/2.8
The Perseid meteor shower peaked on August 12, 2018 in Nagasaki, Japan. It is my pleasure to observe many meteors with friends, but taking pictures of meteors is not easy.
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a bunch of us got together to watch the show butt i think this guy in front of me was lookin at something else so i ended up getting a shower of my own :P
www.msn.com/en-ca/video/news/how-to-watch-the-perseid-met...
So I debated on posting this. Nothing amazing but so frustrated at the end I just threw in every edit I could click. Blah!
Went to Mount Diablo to check out the Perseid Meteor showers, took a few test shots before this long exposure and out of no where we got kicked out by State Parks Police, this was my only photo :-( Before the entrance, it was residential and the street light were blazing. We only saw 1 big meteor.
The dark skies are hard to find. The good news, I finally booked 3 Desolation Wilderness backcountry permits, so stoked to catch some real stars this fall.
Of the 500 shots taken between 2 and 5 am this morning, only one had a meteor streak. However, clouds covered the sky for part of the period, and the lens fogged up after 90 minutes due to the cold humid air at 3000 m, so it is likely there were a lot more shooting stars. Note the Andromeda Galaxy to the left of the meteor streak. Looking forward to the peak Sunday night into Monday morning!
Quick preview from last night's Perseid Meteor Shower, taken at Glastonbury Tor in Somerset. I have many more shots to go through but just wanted to share this one with you quickly.
I am running an astrophotography workshop in August 2015 in Cyprus. Why don't you join me to photograph the Milky Way and Perseids Meteor Shower?
You can find more information on my website: esentunar.com/workshops
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I saw one meteor before midnight and caught at least two on camera. This was the best one. The peak should provide about 200 per hour tonight and tomorrow, but the last quarter moon will overwhelm all but the brightest ones.
Did not plan our trip this summer to Nova Scotia for the meteor shower, but could not have lucked out more for a great spot with dark skies there in remote White Point, Nova Scotia where for two nights around the peak were clear nights. This was taken on Saturday night where was able to get two meteors in the frame, as well as several satellites ...
Andromeda Galaxy can also be seen in this capture.
... we continue our adventures in this pretty area of Canada.
Cheers!
Here's some more early 2011 Perseid meteors from this last weekend to wet your appetite for the main event this weekend! Please do view the large size, it really helps the stars pop.
Tonight is this year's peak for the Perseid Meteor Shower, so try to get out if you can! Space.com picked up one of my Perseid photos now too (yay!) for their Perseid planner that you can use to help find the best place to look in the sky, when, etc: www.space.com/12615-perseid-meteor-shower-2011-peaks-toni...
Also happening tonight is the "NASA Chat: Stay 'Up All Night' to Watch the Perseids" live-video and audio feed event that should be a treat (they also used some of my images), for more see here: www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/perseids_2011.html
May your skies be clear this evening and happy weekend all!
Shot Notes: This one was is a composite taken from over 257 consecutive 25 second exposures at f/3.2, 3200 ISO over the night of Friday, Aug 5th out at the Pawnee National Grasslands in northeastern Colorado. You can see four or maybe five meteors and fair bit of light pollution as well (the red glow in the sky).
What a story behind this photo. With seeing so many people talking about this meteor shower, I didn't want to miss out, so while in Florida for the next few days, I decided to drive 2 hours south of Orlando to Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park to shoot the Milky Way and perseids all night. After driving two hours (drove 4 hours earlier in the day) and paying $11 in tolls, I was greeted by a closed and locked fence for the park. Too put it kindly, I was upset. Especially since "stargazing" is listed as an activity to do at the park on the Florida State Parks website.
So, another hour was wasted driving around looking for a decent spot along the road and getting bit by mosquitos. I started driving back after giving up, but decided to pull off on a random road, which thankfully had no traffic at all this late at night. So, I set up for a short static timelapse, just so I wouldn't walk away empty handed. The clouds were unexpected, as the forecast for the night was clear. Then fog rolled in and keeping the lens free of dew was quite a task. But in the end, getting to watch the Milky Way, some meteors, and fireflies dancing around make it worth it I'd say.
What a long night!!!! I am so tired! Went out about 1 am and went back in at about 4:30. Really disappointed by my first meteor shower photo op!! I don't know if its because we are too close to Chicago, but we did not see that many, and only caught two with the camera. Of course about 1 hour in there was a HUGE one that was out of camera range that got me all psyched about getting a really good one! Oh well!! Better put this under a microscope in order to see this one!!!
Took a friend and his family on their first camping trip this past weekend. Coincidentally the Perseid Meteor Shower took place on the same weekend. So I had virtually no light pollution. Unfortunately mother nature didn't cooperate fully and some clouds moved in (dark void in upper left corner).
This shot contains two firsts for me. I got my first real successfully meteor shot and I also captured the Milky Way in an image for the first time as well.
Strobist Info:
I used a Surefire flash light to light paint the trees and ground during the 30 second exposure.
Press L to view it large (looks much better).
another from last nights shoot.
This one mid fogging of the lens : \
Hoping tonight will bring better luck!
timelapsed glimpse is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNTJjKJ-Fqo
Enjoy!
photo date/id: 20130811_1820Bb
Three merged long exposures (3 mins, 6 mins and 10 mins) taken late last night / early this morning... I think there is one or two meteors in there; near the center of the frame.
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Lehman, Pennsylvania
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
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August 12th - peak of the annual Perseids meteor shower.& I got nada!Saw about 15 streaks however the clouds rolled in and I missed the boat.I was happy with the images 7 plan to go back!
I love looking at the Milky Way! We were sitting on the patio enjoying the summer evening. There were still meteors streaking across the sky from the Perseid Meteor shower. We have such great views of the night sky with very little light pollution. I set up my tripod to get a few shots.
Now, there are several “out of this world” things going on in this image. First, it is the Milky Way and you can’t get much more out of this world than that. Second, there is a faint meteor streaking across the Milky Way about a third of the way from the top. Who knows where that space dust came from! Third, there is a little glowing eyed “ghost” in the lower right corner! I *think* it is our dog, Bear. But Bear is not solid white! He is black and white. The white silhouette has no black markings on it that would coincide with Bear’s markings. The silhouette was not added with photoshop. I only used Lightroom to adjust brightness, color saturation and noise reduction. It is a mystery blob and my little granddaughter swears it is a ghost!
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When photographing stars, you can either get a star "field," a static snapshot of the stars as points of light, or star "trails," where the stars' movements streak across the sky. How long you expose the image determines which you get.
The first rule of thumb to remember is that the Earth rotates such that the light from a star begins to "move" after about 15 seconds. It's apparent movement is largely dependent on your lens—the longer the focal length, the more apparent the movement; the wider angle lenses won't show much movement till later because of the star point is so small.
In the Northern hemisphere, the center of these trails is the North Star.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Location: Tagarina Mountains, Alicante (SPAIN) [?]
Shot info: 24 mm at f/4.0 for 1534.0 sec, 50 ISO.
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These two fotos are the best of 3 meteors I caught Tuesday morning.
30 sec, f3.5, 18mm,3200 ISO, SOOC.
Elevation 6300 ft in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
Bre laying down on a picnic table at Trillium Lake waiting for some shooting stars to pass by during the Perseid Meteor shower last weekend.
There is just something so appealing and awesome about being in a field at the dead of night, looking up at our sky on a clear night. Who has been looking up at our sky this weekend for the Perseid Meteor Shower? Note two meteors on the left of the Milky Way here in this image.
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