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Perseids Meteor Shower 2022. A single shot taken from my backyard.
After try it during the 2nd night, I got this photo of the colorful shooting star. And it passed the Cassiopeia ( 'W' asterism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiopeia_(constellation)#/media/File:Cassieopeia.jpg )
Last Tuesday I spent the night at Santa Margarita Lake hoping to see and photograph the Perseid Meteor Shower. I set up my Sony a9 to make a time lapse of the stars. Then I lay back and enjoyed the 'show' for 3 hours. Of course the very best meteors I saw were not where my camera was pointed, but I did manage to get quite a few. I took a total of 420 shots and of those, chose 25 to make a composite of the meteors. I used a Laowa 15mm lens, f/2, ISO 3200, for 25 seconds. The best part of the experience was just being there. How many other people throughout the ages have stared up at that magnificent night sky and been humbled by it?
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!
A meteor streaks by Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) over Strahl Lake in Brown County State Park, Indiana. A composite of 30 frames processed in Lightroom and combined in Starry Landscape Stacker.
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.
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!
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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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!
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.
☄️Comme un avant goût de la pluie d'étoiles filantes des perséides qui arrive. Par pur hasard, j'ai réussi à capturer ce météoroïde entrant dans l'atmosphère. J'ai eu de la chance car elle passe vraiment en bord de cadrage et vient transpercer la nébuleuse de la tête de cheval bleu. Une récompense après ces 4 nuits à ne pas avoir beaucoup fermé l'œil ! Je le répète encore une fois, mais quelle claque d'avoir un ciel si pur dans un endroit iconique comme celui-là.
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Je crois que suis arrivé au bout du bout de mon process de traitement de la Voie lactée. Les curseurs ont étés tirés au maximum "acceptable" selon moi pour éviter l'apparition de défauts.
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Concernant les détails techniques, le ciel est suivi et empilé :
Ciel : 22x90s 1600ISO F/2.8 dont l'expo du météore restacké par dessus le stack final.
Sol : 1x90s 1600ISO F/2.8 sans suivi.
Le tout au Canon 6Da + Sigma 24mm avec l'orientation ciel-sol identique.
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.
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.
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.
(Four Corners Project 1628-3)
Went out on Monday night to catch the Delta Aquariids meteor shower. Saw quite a few but only caught this bright one on camera. Still, happy with this one! Check out the Big Dipper to the left.
On the top of the table mountain in Cap Town, South Africa. A bird is waiting for the sunset, stand on a stone, it's look like the bird is traveling on a meteorite.
The bird walk on the horizon, beetwen the sea and the sky like they use to be on electrical lines.
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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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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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.
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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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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
Happy Fence Friday!
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.
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
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
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...
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The iconic Meteor cafe in Oia, great coffee, cool jazz tunes and an amazing view over the Caldera, highly recommended... unfortunately for me not open at this time of day..
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.
ACQUISITION: Nikon Z7 (St) + 7Artisans 10/2,8 Fish Eye lens @ 2,8. Camera Interval shooting, Mode P, Interval 20 s, Interval priority ON, Exposure compensation ON, Max ISO 6400, 365 frames ~ 120 min total exposure. CZ, Jun 20, 2025
POST PROCESSING: LR Timelapse, Adobe Lightroom, Apple IMovie.
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.🤔
The Milky Way glows over the Bond Falls Reservoir near Paulding, MI while a Perseids meteor streaks across the sky.
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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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.
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.