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A bold meteor combined with Mars & Milky Way, over the Saronic Gulf. The red lights on the horizon are wind turbines. Faint green airglow visible.
EXIF: Canon 5Dmk4, Sigma Art 14 mm, f/2.8, iso 5k, 30'', slightly cropped.
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The best Perseid I could muster tonight. The brightest one of the ones I captured. The best I saw had the camera pointing the wrong way!! There is also a plane in there along with the Milky Way which surprised me due to the light pollution.
Before heading back to the car at Mirror Lake in the High-Uintas of Utah, my son suggested that the trees might make a good foreground to the night sky, highlighting the Milky Way. I'd have to say that he was right.
Editor's note: This is an archive image from 2009, part of our "Think Pink" gallery, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625045060125/
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Check out this amazing, false-color composite photo of 130 shooting stars snapped using a fisheye lens showing the entire overhead sky, taken by NASA astronomers in Alabama during the Perseids meteor shower in 2009. Per astronomer Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office at Marshall Space Flight Center:
“…we recorded a bright meteor or fireball over the Marshall Space Flight Center every three minutes -- a fabulous rate."
Observers worldwide say that meteor rates skyrocketed to 200 per hour which fits perfectly with the predictions for 2009.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
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 30.0 sec, 1600 ISO.
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The Perseids meteor shower - the most popular meteor shower of the year - peaks this weekend!
Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The Perseids meteor shower - the most popular meteor shower of the year - peaks this weekend!
In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.
Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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!
The Perseid Meteor Shower over Sylvan Lake! I wish I had Monday off of work so I could go out there and experience it again tonight.
This is also my first attempt at star trail photography. It's a composite of 50 images, each being a 30 second long exposure, and then combined with a three minute exposure for the foreground. I used a program called StarStaX to combine the 50 star images, which took 25 minutes to capture. I have 149 images I could combine, but decided that a composite of 50 star images looked best.
Now that I had a chance to go through the images from last night, here is a fun self-portrait. This is a composite made up of multiple images - one for the foreground, and 6 others for the meteors. The images span approximately 1 hour from the first one to the last.
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
Star trails above the beautiful peaks of Alpi Apuani, a mountain range in Northern Tuscany.
I was really looking forward to watching the Perseid meteor shower in Italy. The August skies here are much more likely to be clear than they were in the UK.
After some research on Google Maps I found a winding road going up the side of Monte Corchia and arriving to the height of 1100 m. From here the views are fantastic to each direction - in the South you have the distant lights of Pisa, Viareggio and Livorno; to the West there is the Tyrrhenian sea; the view towards the North is shown here and on the East there is the towering peak of Monte Corchia.
This image is a composite of 35 photos of 2 minutes each, giving a total exposure time of 70 minutes.
Nikon D800 + Nikkor 16-35mm f/4
16mm | f/4 | ISO800 | 2 min x 35
One sharp perseid, gives light and colors to the night sky
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Tucked away between two massive rock outcroppings, this is not a typical view of Sylvan Lake. But it was an interesting spot to frame up the southern end of the milky way while several meteors whizzed by overhead!
Luke/PhotoInference and I had originally considered checking out a number of locations here at Beacon Rock State Park while the moon was still up and then going up McClellan Viewpoint and take a few shots there with Mt Saint Helens in the background and then return here. But we liked this view of Beacon Rock and other views from the boat ramp at Beacon Rock State Park so much that we ended up staying here the whole time. It was a wonderfully calm and pleasant evening, a sweater was all it took to stay comfortable, and no mosquitos were out.
It was 11pm, the moon would not set for another hour and then its light would still be brightening the sky for another hour or two after that. So this was just meant as a test shot, but as luck would have it this also turned out to be the best meteor shot of the 60+ exposures I took that evening.
Because of the moonlight and long exposure the original of this shot is much brighter, almost like daylight, so I have dialed back the exposure in Lightroom and then a bit more in Photoshop to make it appear more like how it was out there.
15min, f4, ISO100 10.5mm full frame fisheye (cropped a bit). Step out into the moonlight view large on black. N06545
3min. @ f4...... ISO400..... Perseid meteor shower...... 10:30pm off to the beach, 1 test shot , locked the timer down and spread out a blanket, got comfortable and watch the show......
of the 25 frames captured, the last 8 were totally fogged over with humidity, (the camera was dripping wet )..... and of course the moon was the lowest during the last frames and more meteors were visible to us, so, from 17 frames, 1 captured 3 meteors..... but it was a nice shower, no umbrella needed :-)
Headed out to Glendalough last night with some of the GCC
to see if we could catch some of the perseid meteor shower. Unfortunately we were thwarted by clouds and less then frequent meteors.
I had promised Niav that if i was to disappear off for the whole night (again)
that i would a least catch one star for her, so i hung on until finally at about 1am I shot of one last exposure, before resigning myself to failure and that was when a beautiful meteor streaked across the night sky.
Photo doesn't do it justice.
Cheer to the 3 Pats, Arthur & Sigita for the company.
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Last weekend we took the family to Mirror Lake to go see the Perseid meteor shower and see the stars. To our wonderful luck the sky was dark and gorgeous, and we saw many shooting stars. The kids commented that they haven't ever seen the stars or the Milky Way like this!
I'm of course bummed that I got only a few shooting stars in-camera, and none in the photos that I liked best. But it turned out to be a great opportunity to try out my new 16mm f/2.8 fisheye lens.