Perseids

While not the strongest of all meteor showers, the Perseids are certainly the best known. This is mainly due to the fact that their peak is every year around the 9th to 14th August, with invitingly warm summer nights in the northern hemisphere for stargazing and watching the shooting stars.

 

This year did not disappoint, and I spent a beautiful night with my daughter and my friend Benjamin Barakat at this chapel in the Swiss Alps.

 

The Perseids are caused by Earth passing through debris in the orbit of Comet Swift-Tuttle. When Earth moves through the meteor stream, the shooting stars seemingly originate from a single point, called the radiant. With the radiant located in the constellation Perseus, the stream is called Perseids.

 

The image contains 17 Perseids captured over several hours, and as a special treat, the Andromeda Galaxy lingers at the right edge of the frame.

 

EXIF

Canon EOS-Ra

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Sky:

Stack of 10x 45s @ ISO1600, f/2

Meteorites:

17 x 15s @ ISO6400, f/2

Foreground:

Focus stack of 5 x 2s @ ISO400, f/5.6 during blue hour

 

Done