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My attempt to photograph the Perseid Meteor Shower.
The photograph isn't as dramatic as I had hoped. I only managed to capture two small streaks and two tiny streaks - and a couple of airplanes. I did see one cheer worthy falling star (outside of the frame) so the effort was definitely worth it. I will try again!
123 30 second exposures at f5, 500 ISO.
Stacked using StarStaX.
Taken a week before the height of the activity due to the weather forecast. Glad I did as there was thick cloud.
The Milkyway with a Perseid passing through. The teapot asterism is also visible at the bottom left of the milky way arm.. (Thanks to Starman_1969 for spotting the teapot)
Despite the early cloud and bright moon, I still had a good show here last night, with some really bright meteors. This one was at around 2.40 a.m. and was typical, although most seemed to miss the camera's sensor.... I was lucky that the previous day we had the tree surgeon down to prune the large oak at the back of our garden, or I'd not have got this shot......Colours a bit clearer viewed large...
The Galleta Meadows Woolly Mammoth sculpture on the night of the Perseid meteor shower peak -- August 12/13, 2010. Borrego Springs, California. 88 one-minute exposures, stacked.
First of all, this one must be viewed large on black!
Stayed up late to watch the Perseids last night and what a show! Unfortunately, they were camera shy and somehow avoided the FOV on my 11mm wide-angle :(
The night wasn't a total loss though (photographically speaking). The moon was high (unfortunately for the Perseids) and in a very photogenic phase so I shot a few frames through my C9.25 at f/6.3. The exposures (stack of the 34 best here) were 1/1000s at ISO 800.
The Milky Way over Lough Corrib, Co Galway, Ireland, during the August Perseids shower. Number 0ne on Explore.......wow, appreciate it, thank you very much everybody .
Here's the story of this photo: We went on the mountains to watch the famous Perseids meteor shower and I was so excited that I was going to shoot it for the first time. The first night, there were so many clouds and it was freezing cold so we had little luck with the falling "stars". Plus, I had left my camera on the tripod on a cliff to shoot a timelapse and a freaking goat attacked it!! My wide-angle lens turned into pieces since it hit the rocks and now it looks a little like a kaleidoscope. Plus, when you shake it, you can see little pieces of the aperture coming out of the clefts.Plus, I got a flu in the middle of the summer. GREAT. To my surprise I stayed cool enough and so, the second night I tried my luck with the 50mm and the results were pretty good. The weather was perfect and the view more than spectacular. And one thing is sure, animals don't seem to like me a lot!
Equipment: Nikon D7000 , lens: Nikkor 50 mm f/1.4 , Tripod
Settings: Aperture : f/1.6 , Shutter Speed :10' , ISO : 4000
Software: Adobe Lightroom 4.3
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A perseid fireball falls while we can see the galactic center of the milky way just besides the Harlan J. Smith Telescope from the McDonald Observatory in west Texas.
The perseid meteor shower is scheduled to peak on August 12, but the nights before and after are also great nights for enjoying the show!
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This is the last photo to be uploaded to Flickr. Having sat on the sidelines of both Flickr and Ipernity for the past couple of months, It's time I made a decision.
Flickr is not going to improve, and even with a relatively speedy broadband, ISTILL find it painfully slow and clunky to browse.
The community on the other side is growing, and I'm sure I'll put down new roots soon, Hopefully see a few more familiar faces over there soon.
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.
This is a shot I've put together from three shots, I've seen some shocking photoshopping going about, Less is more!
Great Night!
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.
Bright meteors and dark night skies made this year's Perseid meteor shower a great time for a weekend campout. And while packing away their equipment, skygazers at a campsite in the mountains of southern Germany found at least one more reason to linger under the stars, witnessing this brief but colorful flash with their own eyes. Presented as a 50 frame gif, the two second long video was captured during the morning twilight of August 12. In real time it shows the development of the typical green train of a bright Perseid meteor. A much fainter Perseid is just visible farther to the right. Plowing through Earth's atmosphere at 60 kilometers per second, Perseids are fast enough to excite the characteristic green emission of atomic oxygen at altitudes of 100 kilometers or so. via NASA ift.tt/2wW3dYE
Scott and I visited one of his favourite abandonments near La Broquerie (Manitoba) to shoot the Perseids meteor shower. We thought the meteor shower was a bit of a letdown, with way less meteors than advertised, but it was still a fun photoshoot.
From a meadow near Heart Lake on the White River Plateau, at 10,000 feet, I set up the tripod and camera and let the intervalometer do its work. In slightly over two hours it collected 452 star shots, each 15 sec long and from those I picked the 10 best shots containing meteor trails. I used four shots stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker to set the sky. Then layer masks in Photoshop dropped the 10 meteor trails onto the image of the night sky.
The Andromeda Galaxy is visible near the top of the photo, and if Andromeda is the center of a clock, a smaller galaxy is visible nearby at 4 o'clock. The Pleiades is the bright cluster just above the trees on the right. The meteors radiate from the constellation, in the Milky Way at the center of the photo.
At higher resolution one can see that most meteors start glowing green and then change to white, yellow or red.
images stacked using software from startrails.de
gaps in stars are frames taken out to remove streaking lights from aircraft
watch the timelapse in HD here - vimeo.com/47431341
from Huckleberry Knob, NC
Canon 5DmkII + Samyang 24mm f/1.4
Pushed under this expanse of bursting stars
Let this burning brightly illumintate the where we are..
"Province" - TV On the Radio
112 second exposure of the Perseids meteor shower. The town of Radium Springs, New Mexico is shown in the photo. In addition I got the band of the Milky Way Galaxy. 15 miles North of Las Cruces, New Mexico. 12AUG07 just before midnight.
Shown on KDBC TV Channel 4 News in El Paso, TX.
Featured on WomansDay.com here:
www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/Travel/7-Maje...
385 shots and I think this is the only perseid I caught, maybe I was pointing in the wrong direction. I'll try to make a startrails from them, maybe more will show up then.
The engineer in me loves the challenge of astrophotography! While I spent most of the night watching the meteors come wizzing by the opposite direction of whatever way my camera was facing, I managed to nail one right as it was heading towards the galactic core.
Twelve meteors were imaged between 12:27 and 2:52 a.m. north of New Underwood, South Dakota. Three appear to be sporadic, not emanating from the radiant point near the Double Cluster. About 360 images taken; tracked with iOptron Star Guider Pro. 24mm; f/3.2; ISO 3200; 20 sec. Stitched in MS Ice.
Well, that wasn't the most successful perseid night I've ever had. I caught a (very) few on camera but all very feint behind clouds. This one at 2.24 a.m. this morning was the best but it's no more than a record shot I'm afraid. I may have a little more luck tonight and catch a few stragglers... Interesting to see the effect of light pollution on the clouds.
This should enlarge slightly so you can actually see the meteor!
The first Perseids
Le prime perseidi dell'anno e lightpainting in località Pnna, una suggestiva sella erbosa posta tra Prato Nevoso e la Val Corsaglia.
Qui i restroscena dello scatto mattiamarenco.blogspot.com/2013/07/leonidi-e-light-painti...
Get it on Alamy goo.gl/bs2p65
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!
Keep an eye (and lens) out for the Perseid meteor shower this weekend. This is one of the most reliable displays of shooting stars - with 70 meteors per hour visible under dark skies far from the city light pollution.
This is my Perseid meteor shower image from 2016 - taken from Glen Allen, Virginia.
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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...
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.
Here's a perseid meteor that passed in front of me as I was setting up for a series of shots at the HET telescope at the McDonald Observatory while the moon was still out on August 12.
I just got lucky that the meteor passed by just after I had gotten the focus on the HET right
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I went out hunting for the Perseid Meteors this season and learned again how camera shy these guys can be! You’d see flashes and trails very frequently and usually where your camera was not pointed or when it was not acquiring! This compilation was looking off of the main origination spot in the sky, but managed over 2+ hours to capture more than my other configuration. While they mostly emanate from one location, the specifics of their trajectories can result in some going more across my frame (or even upwards). I processed the Milky Way separately to use as a backdrop and Photoshopped the meteorites where they appeared in frame. The fainter meteorites hint at the limitations of my glass and my sensor—there was no doubt more to see. Still, by far my best meteor shower! Cheers! Made from 5 light frames (captured with a Canon camera) by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.6.2. Algorithm: Median