Meteor in lower left

Perseid meteor shower 2016 from Northern Germany.

This one was pretty much unedited. It's a 4 mins single shot luckily caught a small one in the zoomed frame. :P

First time shooting star at night my lens got foggy and I didn't realized it >_<

So the rest if them are unfortunately blurry haha.

This is my first shot so it's still clean and clear. LOL

This one frame (30sec) exposure caught 4 meteors.

A composite depicting the Perseid meteor shower on the night of Wednesday, August 12, 2015 as shot from southern Alberta, Canada.

The image takes in a wide swath of the north and eastern sky, including the radiant of the shower in Perseus at left of centre, near the Double Cluster visible as a clump of stars. All the Perseids can be traced back to this point. Also in the image: the summer Milky Way and, at left, a dim aurora in green and magenta that was barely visible to the eye but was picked up by the camera. The Andromeda Galaxy is at centre. The Pleiades is just on the horizon.

Apart from some haze from forest fire smoke, it was a near perfect night: warm, dry, just a little wind to keep the bugs at bay, and no Moon. A perfect night for a meteor watch.

This is a layered stack of 35 images recording three dozen meteors (most Perseids but also a couple of sporadics not aimed back to the radiant in Perseus, such as the bright one at far left).

The 35 images were selected from 200 shot from 11 pm to 2:30 am that night, with most frames not picking up any meteors. This composite is from the 35 taken over the 3.5 hours that did record a meteor. Each exposure is 1 minute at f/2.8 with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye, on the Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200 (a couple of the early shots in the sequence were at ISO 1600 for 2 minutes).

The camera was tracking the sky on the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer tracker, so all images of the stars are aligned and registered out of the camera, with the meteors in their proper position relative to the stars and radiant. I masked out a couple of satellite and aircraft trails that were distracting, and took away from the point of illustrating the radiant of the meteor shower.

The horizon, however, is from one image, taken early in the sequence. Some of the blue in the sky comes from one of the early shots taken in deep twilight but that contained a nice meteor. And I liked the blue it added.

All stacking and processing with Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop.

Dark Park only hours from where I live, Perseid Meteor shower, and a new moon, I could not pass up the opportunity.

Here are a handful of pics I took with my limited time there (before the condensation took over and the battery on my 5d dying).

Dark Park only hours from where I live, Perseid Meteor shower, and a new moon, I could not pass up the opportunity.

Here are a handful of pics I took with my limited time there (before the condensation took over and the battery on my 5d dying).

Dark Park only hours from where I live, Perseid Meteor shower, and a new moon, I could not pass up the opportunity.

Here are a handful of pics I took with my limited time there (before the condensation took over and the battery on my 5d dying).

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before the clouds rolled in tonight my first shot with my back up camera coming from the A77mk2 to the A6000 I have to say I'm pretty impressed

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After nearly five hours of attempting to capture the Perseid meteor showers I had thought the night was a bust. During the day of August 11th 2016, I was constantly watching the skies, and staring at weather maps. There were conflicting reports for the amount of nighttime cloud cover. I had already taken off of work the next day, my gear was ready and I had mentally committed to going so off into the night I went. I never know what to expect when I pull up to a location in the middle of the night.

This night was different though. I was surrounded by stargazers. There were groups of friends, couples and families lined up for the astronomical event. All which were friendly and eager to strike up a conversation. I became at ease, and in awe at my surroundings. Not only did we have the meteors keeping us entertained, but off in the distance to the North were some cloud to cloud lightning that would flash and light up the horizon. It was quite the spectacle!

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No Meteor

Finally getting around to looking through images from the one night I spent watching thus year

Perseid Meteor Shower

Clouds started rolling in around 4:30am, ruining any clear sky shots.

Perseid Meteor Shower from near Artist Point, North Cascades, Washington State

Perseid Meteor Shower of vasquez rocks

Do you see what I see?

My first attempt at Astro Photography!

2016 Perseid Meteor Shower....attempt.

As seen from Johns Creek, Georgia.

A particularly bright Perseid Meteor in the West. Taken 2015 August 12th at 22:39 UTC.

The Perseid meteor shower is coming! There was smoke from a forest fire in the air when I captured this last year, so it was a bit like shooting through a tobacco filter.

This was captured over a BLM Wilderness Study Area on the Mono County/Alpine County border in the Eastern Sierra.

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that light is from the city of los angeles behind the mountains.

One of the first shots after we got set up on the beach. That's looking west - the lake is a few feet behind me at this point.

Nikon D300 ISO 250, 93.2 sec. f/3.5, 18mm

front yard.

Southeastern, Connecticut

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqoI63nQK0k

Perseid Meteor Shower

August 12, 2008 @ 01:25:21

I shot 256 images, using the MC-36 Remote Release Intervalometer, and I got an image of one of 27 or so Perseids we saw entering the atmosphere during a 2 hour period. The one lone Perseid I imaged is very faint, and best viewed at the "Original" size.

This just goes to show how difficult it is to image a meteor shower. Patience is a virtue!

Nikon D300, ISO400, 15 sec, F/2.8, 10.5mm FL

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids

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Went out to Mecca Hills to check out the meteor shower last night. We saw a lot, but never captured one with the camera which was a little disappointing. The lights are from a big-rig that drove by.