Perseid Meteor Shower
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This was the sunrise that rewarded me for staying up all night photographing the Perseid Meteor Shower this past August off the Laramie River in S. Wyoming. In my early morning all-nighter stupor, it sure was quite the welcome sight! ;-)))
As of late I've been on a mission to celebrate some of the less known landscapes around my neck of the woods. Not that I don't crave Oxbow Bend and The Wave as much as the next guy, but I am convinced it's worth exploring more local locations off the beaten track. Everywhere has a sense of place, it's up to us to discover it.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
89 images blended together to make earth's rotation and a couple of meteors visible. The broken lines are airplanes.
I've been really busy having fun lately - five days in Colorado and a week of houseboating on Lake Powell. I'll get around to those images eventually but I got this one on my way up to Lake Powell last weekend. This was shot during the Perseid Meteor shower - the big bright streak above the really freaky formation is a meteor, the really awesome blotch in the upper right hand corner is the Milky Way, the thousands of little dots are stars - it was quite a show!
This is one of the first shots from my trip to the Matterhorn in Switzerland. This mountain is probably one of the most famous in the world due to its Toblerone shape ;)
We hiked up to a height of 2.600m to the Fluhalp to capture the Milkyway and the sunrise at Stellisee.
We had to wait a lot of time for the milky way to be in the right position over the Matterhorn. It was freezing cold up there. I think about 6°C, but when we saw this beautiful milky way and additionally the perseids shower, we didn't care about the coldness. It was truly epic. I think this was the best hiking trip in my life. I will definitely come back and I can recommend you to do the same :)
A few days ago my 6-year-old son asked me what it was like to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower, since he is learning about it at camp. I told him it is one of the most amazing things you can ever see and that I would make him a picture to try to show him what it is really like. I took these photos during last year's meteor shower in the Ice Lake Basin of Colorado near Silverton and finally got around to compositing them together to highlight the shower. I was trying to get the feeling of lying on your back and looking into the heavens while watching the Perseids. I know this year's show won't be as grand due to the lunar cycle, but I always get excited about the Perseids as it always connects be back to my youth when we used to go camping and watch the light show above. This is a 360x180 panorama stitched in Autopano Giga. I re-aligned the meteors to the Perseid radiant in Photoshop CS5.
20 sec @ f/2.8 ISO 6400
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Lucky meteor captured during this mini time lapse:
Drove for over two hours, shot over 140 frames... this was the only Perseid I caught with the camera, and it was the second exposure. Gah!!
Sure, I saw a good handful of them throughout the night (from about 11PM to 3 AM), but the suckers were always streaking where my lens wasn't.
Oh well. I urge you to see it on black, as you will be able to see a slight green tint in the meteor's path.
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One very bright meteor from the Perseid Meteor shower
This photo didn't turn out as well as I'd like but at least I got part of a nice meteor that shows its colors.
From last year's beautiful display which took place on very clear moonless night. It's a composite image made from the brightest meteors captured that night.
One of the many fireballs which where observed during the night of 2-3/8/2016 on Mt. Helmos (2340 m). Perseids are here. Their activity is increased. There were tens of meteors/hour, sometimes even 2-4 at once!
In the picture one can see also a faint airglow with gravity waves on the left side.
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Perseid Meteor Shower at Trillium Lake Friday morning, August 13, 2010.
I took 360, 30 second exposures to get this one shot. This is an aggregate of the meteors that fell in three hours last night.
Exposure - 30 seconds x 360 exposures
Aperture - f/2.8
Focal Length - 11 mm
ISO Speed - 2000
Basically - This shot was created by taking 360 exposures and then taking the shots that had meteor's in them out and layering them over each other and masking and merging them into the lower layer. I did each layer one at a time.
This shot did not take into consideration the rotation of Earth during the three hours that I was shooting, thus the lack of a common point of origin. I have since compensated using a time/rotation adjustment and recompiled the layers into this image HERE.
A nice meteor of the marvellous Perseid meteor shower, early in the morning, on August...OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Something I've personally been waiting to see for 4 years now. Expecting the usual cloudy skies to put a stop to all the fun. On Monday the 12th of August, the UK experienced the absolute best conditions to watch the years Perseid Meteor Shower in style. After quite a few nights searching all over the place, the best location we could find was at Birling Gap.
Great Night!
After last year's failure to shoot the Perseids, I have been planning to try again. I got the truck loaded up and checked cloud cover forecasts for the Southwest, and it looked like I might have to go as far as western AZ or UT to get 90% assurance of clear skies. In the end I decided not to go; instead, I drove the truck out to the Ojito Wilderness, about 40 minutes from home, and spent the night there.
Not having much of an awesome background, I opted to shoot just the sky. The forecast was for clouds with a chance of rain,but it had been clear all day, so I was hopeful. Alas, it was not to be. Around midnight the clouds moved in. I shot all night anyway, doing a timelapse sequence. Here is just a frame from that, albeit the best one.
You can see lights of Los Alamos and Santa Fe. Albuquerque, which is off to the right, also provided illumination for the clouds. Too much light pollution for optimal results.
So I shot two frames/minute for eight hours, from about 10 pm to 6 am. I'll put up the video soon.
At least it's an improvement over last year, when I got nada shooting off my back porch.
One Perseid meteor captured during a 38 minute series of exposures last night. Also nine planes and one satellite trail in this fisheye view of the sky.
Not long after this the lens started fogging up so some work is needed to create a lens heater.
The peak in Perseid activity is over the nights of the 12th/13th so fingers crossed for clear skies.
Sony A7 / Samyang 8mm Fisheye
The peak night for the Perseid Meteor Shower was the night of August 12-13 2010. I went out with Katie to watch them and saw LOTS! I tried to take pics and did manage to capture about 3 shots with the meteors but this is a stack of 136 photos and the quite dim streaks did not show up after blending. I still have much to learn about actually getting good shots of shooting stars! Overall it was a very good night and we saw more meteors than I have ever seen at once.
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