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Perseid Meteor Showers 2020
There are what I got from 11:00 PM ~ 1:00AM last night at bay area coast. I used two camera to capture the milky way movement as well as meteor. However, it seems not as good as I expected.
Two year ago, I did my first attempt to capture the famous Perseid Meteor Shower events during August. Unfortunately, at that time the entire Washington State was covered with smoke from wild fires and the viewing conditions for meteor shower wasn't great. Last year the Perseid Meteor shower happened to be in the same time as full moon, which wasn't ideal either. This year, chances finally come for me to try again.
The meteor shower peaked on last Tuesday night, but cloud coverage was too high so I had to wait until Wednesday night which had very clear sky. I went to Mt.Rainer National Park after work and came to this famous Reflection Lake. As night fell, I could start to see meteors every now and then, and several of them were really bright and lasted almost an entire second. WOW, what an amazing night to see Mt.Rainier with perseid meteors on the sky!
Fought many a mosquito to get this one. I'm very new to this kind of photography...I guess lightening with no trigger is as close as I've come, but I really enjoyed it. There were lots of meteors, a sounder of wild hogs and an armadillo that blindly threatened to knock over my tripod. It was a good morning!
Just back from a two week trip to Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. Started at Meteor Crater, then on to Coal Mine Canyon, Grand Canyon, Marble Canyon, Lake Powell, Zion, Bryce, Hite, Valley of the Gods, and Goose Neck State Park. I may of missed one or two.
So here's Meteor Crater. The first of many photos.
Went to Cloud Cap which is 6000 feet up Mount Hood. It's a pretty cool place, you can camp up there because it is the highest campground on Mt Hood. So we have a meteor shower going on right now, you wouldn't be able to tell by some of our photo's from Gary, Andrew or Chris . We did see some amazing meteors but I think our camera's were a deterrent. A Perseid meteor was not in the cards.
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rocking #5 right now on explore...it's a high for this pic, #10 earlier today then #24.
A surprising trend in recent months has been a resurgence in the original P40s south of Washington. Here, one of these leads Amtrak's Silver Meteor northbound through Slaters Lane yesterday morning. The flags mark one of what are currently several work zones between AF and RO interlockings.
A late evening last night attempting to catch the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower. This was the only usable frame I captured. Lots conspiring against me including light pollution and a full moon. At least the moon lit up the foreground nicely. Camera aimed in a NWW direction.
Got a couple of meteors and a glimpse of the milky way, but unfortunately clouds came and covered everything.
Bright meteor with 2 (at least) explosions seen as bright spots on its trail. A video of it, is available here: youtu.be/VnGDKLc5amQ?si=-Muu6xTaec589Ubo
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The great Meteor Storm of May 31st turned out to be a drizzle, but the lightning bugs and one good meteor all came together to make that 3a shoot worth it!
While photographing the Perseid meteor shower on the night of August 11-12 up in Calumet MI, I captured this image. "Great meteor!" you might say. Wrong! It's an artificial satellite. It's really too bright to be a meteor, but more importantly there's a sharp cutoff where it starts and stops. Which means it was there when the camera's shutter opened and it was still there when it closed. It was a fifteen second exposure, so that would make it the slowest meteor ever! There's a second, much fainter streak near the top of the image, but I believe that to be from a satellite as well. If that fainter streak really is from a meteor, then it wasn't a Perseid - it doesn't trace back to the radiant near the Cassiopeia/Perseus border. There are a couple other even fainter streaks (also not Perseids) in the image elsewhere, but you have to look closely to see them.
I have many other images from that night with streaks in them. Most are from satellites (one of them from before the end of twilight contains nine!), and just a handful contained faint meteors. Alas, my shot a little further back in my photostream is my only one with a Perseid.
You may notice Lyra near the top of the image, Aquila left and below center, and Ophiuchus towards the right. The "Coathanger" is above left of center, about halfway to the corner.
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Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona was created when a meteorite crashed into the earth 50,000 years ago traveling at 26,000 miles per hour. The crater is nearly one mile across and more than 550 feet deep. For a long while it was thought that this crater was created by a volcano. However, early in the last century Daniel Barringer proved that the crater was the result of a meteor impact. The crater is also called the Barringer Crater and is privately owned by the Barringer family. The crater is billed as the best preserved impact crater on earth.
The lower observation deck in the foreground of this photo provides scale to the size of the crater.
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The brightest meteor of the year for me, think its a random. For all the action from this eventful night, please view my time lapse on Youtube.
Mount Rainier, Washington
Although similar to my previous photo, until I looked closely and processed this raw image, I did not notice the meteor showers. Nikon D750 with a f2.8 14mm Rokinon lens. I brightened the Milky Way a little to produce more contrast in the night sky.
The famous "Hole in the Rock" portal at Pfeiffer State Beach with the Milky Way and stray Meteor
Sony A7S, Rokinon 24mm f/1.4. Foreground was lightpainted at 13 seconds, f/2.8, ISO3200. Sky was 13 seconds, f/2, ISO12,800
Someone mentioned that I could see up to 200 meteors per hour. I certainly saw many of them last night.
While I was waiting for them I thought that this might be a fun exercise to play around with in Photoshop. It felt appropriate. I copied 25 images and zoomed in on each one of them. Then I used the Multiply Filter and added the sky back to a signal original image. Enjoy!
Sorry, I have not posted a new photo in ages. I haven't been shooting too many photos that I'm really excited about this year. Lots of cityscapes last summer. Lots of gray dismal weather last fall. Practically no desert bloom this spring.
Anyway. This is from just a couple nights ago. Star trails over Superstition Mountain. This is around an hour and a half exposure. Actually about 25, 4 minute exposures merged in photoshop. Mountains lit by the moon with a bit of lightpainting in the foreground to add some sparkle to the cactus.
A meteor (or a satellite?) flashing over the moonlit ruins of Moreton Corbet, a 16th century Elizabethan manor house built next to a ruined 12th century medieval castle. The castle was a Royalist stronghold in the English Civil war and the walls are pock-marked from Parliamentarian musketballs
Taken at 9:05PM from Oracle, Arizona during quarter moon. This bright exploding Taurid Meteor lit the adjacent clouds. Estimated magnitude -5. Looks to be a northern Taurid.
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The Eta Aquariids meteor shower, which peaked in early May this year, was captured in this stunning image by astrophotographer Petr Horálek. It was taken near San Pedro de Atacama, a Chilean town about 50 km away from the Chajnantor observatory site, where APEX and ALMA, astronomical facilities co-owned by ESO, are located. The Eta Aquariids meteors are caused by leftover debris from Halley’s comet and make up the bright, arrow-like darts of light in the photo. But don’t stop there: this image is literally full to the brim of astronomical phenomena.
The luminous object towards the bottom of the sky is Venus. Above it, arranged in a satisfying line, are several planets in conjunction. Directly above Venus is Jupiter, followed by the bright red Mars, and then Saturn. Conjunctions such as this are rare, often occurring decades apart. The planets also trace the zodiacal light, the faint glow stretching like a pillar, up towards the bright stellar-dense centre of the Milky Way, our home galaxy.
Zodiacal light is often seen from dark sites like ESO observatories just after sunset, or before sunrise, and is the reflected sunlight from dust particles in the plane of the Solar System. The dust comes from asteroids, passing comets, and even from other inner Solar System planets, such as Mars. Here we see the zodiacal light paired with the red sunset over the mountains and volcanoes surrounding the Chajnantor site, a spectacular backdrop to this dreamy night sky.
Credit: ESO/P. Horalek
The maximum population at Meteor City on Route 66 in Arizona was 2, the owner and his wife. The historic trading post was founded in 1938 to capitalize on the the visitors to nearby Berringer Crater. The geodesic dome with a mohawk was constructed in 1979 and rebuilt after a fire in 1990. The original owner died and his widow carried on for years. Then she passed and a new owner operated the business but in 2012 the place was closed. It was severely damaged by vandals and was scheduled to be torn down but a couple from the mid-west decided to buy it and restore it to its former glory in 2018. They opened in 2020 while still in the renovation process but the pandemic put an end to their dream. There is a new owner with big plans but given the amount of work necessary to maintain the dome and other structures, I suspect this place is well on the way to becoming another ruin on Route 66.
Thought I would take a shot at the Geminids meteor shower. About 140 shots later, I only managed to capture a single one, but I'll take it! Castor and Pollux are seen shining brightly to the right.
The first clear evening for weeks, and so had a go at capturing the December Geminid Meteor Shower.
Around 600 20 second exposures and just one single meteor, but a pretty good one! An “Earthgrazer” fireball, must have been pretty impressive to have witnessed it.
24mm - 20 seconds - F3.5 - ISO 800
We had a chance to visit Meteor Crater on our recent trip to Arizona - WOW! It is about 3,900 ft (1,200 m) in diameter and about 560 ft (170 m) deep, and is surrounded by a rim that rises 148 ft (45 m) above the surrounding plains. I never realized this crater is privately owned.
Tech Specs: Apple iPhone stitched five image mosaic. Image date: April 27, 2021. Location: Meteor Crater, Arizona.
aka: Duesenberg Special was modified by Ab Jenkins in search of higher speed records. Jenkins had the Duesenberg Special modified by replacing the Duesenberg engine with a Curtiss Conqueror aircraft engine, V12, 750hp. This version of the car was named Mormon Meteor.
In 1939, Jenkins drove the car 171 mph (275 km/h) and broke all of the 12-hour endurance records.
After the aircraft engine was removed from the Mormon Meteor in 1938, the car was restored to Duesenberg Special specifications.
The car was sold at a Gooding & Company's Pebble Beach Auction. The new owner had the car restored to its 1935 racing condition and entered it in the 2007 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, which it won. ! wiki
I had a quick stop off at Scapa Pier last night to test my new Lens.
During the Exposure some meteors decided to ruin the Scene!!
I had the 10sec timer enabled so by the time i took another shot they were already faded out.
Maybe i shouldn't be so lazy and get the remote shutter out of the bag more often.🤔
In the waning months of the spring of 2021, I found myself driving from the now destroyed Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim back towards Albuquerque (I'd been searching for photos of the structure in the wake of its destruction). I found the remains of the the then abandoned Meteor City Trading Post as a BNSF train rolls westward on the old Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe main line.
The Milky Way glows over the Bond Falls Reservoir near Paulding, MI while a Perseids meteor streaks across the sky.
My third attempt ever at photographing the night sky. With all the meteor action this week, I scored a bonus by capturing quite a few this weekend. This bad boy is my fav shot! :)
Meteor was a marque of automobiles offered by Ford Canada from 1949 to 1976. The make was retired for the 1962 and 1963 model years, when the name was used for the Mercury Meteor sold in the States.
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Over 50,000 thousand years ago a meteor approximately 150 feet wide and weighing several hundred thousand tons slammed into the earth near Flagstaff, Arizona. The result of the impact was the creation of a crater which measures 550 feet deep and almost a mile wide.
Meteor Crater is privately owned and is not cheap to visit. The Museum provides an interesting history of crater geology. One theory was that the meteor was buried deep in the earth. The competing theory was that it exploded upon impact. After digging down a few thousand feet, no meteor was found. So the explosion theory won.
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With temperatures in the single digits (F), I elected to photograph this year's Geminids through my window using Fujifilm X-T3 and Fuji's 16-55mm f/2.8 lens. Time lapse ran from 12:51AM to 3:07AM on 13 Dec at 13 secs, f/2.8, iso 1600, 20mm (35mm equivalent full frame). The first meteor recorded looking northeast was at 1:09AM and the last 2:47AM. Some green and red airglow was detected although faint.
I was surprised at the quality of this stacked image (8x13s) considering it was taken through a mostly clean double pane window.
Forecast is for clouds tonight so I'm happy I got something now. The brightest meteor was probably -2 magnitude. Fresh snow storm dropped over 3" a few hours earlier (www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/50716441566/in/photost...).
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Looks like the surface of the moon perhaps, with multi craters from in-coming meteors. It's actually our conservatory roof yesterday being battered by yet another heavy shower. To me, these showers are more like mini monsoons, with torrents of water falling in a short space of time. I don't need to be told about Climate Change and its dire effects. I can see it happening in our own locality with my own eyes every single day.
I was able to catch 10 or 11 meteors last night. I'm not sure about one of them, it might be a satellite trail. I tracked Castor and Pollux, the brightest stars in the constellation Gemini and let the tracker and camera run from 11:30 pm to about 1:00 am.
Most of the meteors point back to the constellation of Gemini, in front of which a comet and its tail crossed the orbit of the earth. The debris is still lingering there, and when the earth reaches that area, a lot of the comet bits burn up in the atmosphere.
Arizona's meteor crater is the best preserved impact crater in the world. It was also the first one proved to be an impact crater. It is almost a mile across and 570 feet deep. Scientists estimate that the impactor was a 150-foot-wide nickel-iron meteor moving at 26,000 mph.
The facilities for visitors are modern and attractive. Entrance fee in 2021 was $20 for adults, $11 for children. You save a little by ordering online at meteorcrater.com.