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Tucson was close to the optimum location, the Tau Herculids burst was present as predicted. I counted nine in the hour or so of predicted maximum and might have missed some looking another direction while rotating on a stool to search. My cameras captured some including the best one I saw, a bright meteor just before 10 pm PDT shown in the left image. The color in this meteor is interesting, different from some other major showers. The brightest one appeared to be about 0 magnitude about the same as Arcturus.
Captured with Nikon D850 and Sigma 20 mm F1.4 lens
Wide angle view of brighter meteor: flic.kr/p/2noTa4x
The image of 2017 Perseid meteor shower. KunLun Fort ,Dunhuang, Gangsu province of China. When the milky way stood,I caught a bolide in the sky behind the Kunlun Fort. The Kunlun Fort was an important Military fortress on the Silk Road in Han Dynasty. They both left a glorious moment in the sky of the histroy, reminding me of Jack London's famous saying,‘I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent plane’.
I am pretty sure this is a 1954 Meteor. The Meteor was made by the Ford Motor Company of Canada from the late 1940's until the mid 1970's. Photo taken along Matsqui Trail, Abbotsford, B.C.
Meteor F.8 VH-MBX/A77-851 of the Temora Aviation Museum at the 2015 Australian International Airshow
Not much chance of seeing the Perseid meteor shower tonight (although I'll try), so here's one I prepared earlier. A particularly bright Geminid meteor from last December.
A combination of light pollution from flaring gas wells, blinking wind towers, Cheyenne and a growing lightning storm conspired to give this scene a decidedly Mordor vibe. You can see a Perseid meteor right of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and a possible Iridium flare directly below it. This was taken after the peak of last year's Persied event.
Image Notes: This image is a composite of multiple frames taken over roughly 45 minutes from the same location. Three separate shots captured the lightning, two for the meteor and flare, one for sky and one for lighter foreground. Most of the warmer points of light on the horizon are gas being flared off oil wells that don't have the infrastructure to utilize the gas. The red lights are wind towers and of course the glowing clouds are from lightning.
Taken overnight on 15th/16th September during an aurora alert, when the camera was running continuously for several hours. ISO-1600 for 15 seconds at f/3.5
The Perseids /ˈpərsiːɪdz/ are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle. The Perseids are so called because the point from which they appear to come, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. The name derives in part from the word Perseides (Περσείδες), a term found in Greek mythology referring to the sons of Perseus.
A 80 image photo stack
Taken with a
Canon SL1
Rokinon 6mm fisheye
ISO 800
F3.5
Exposure of 30 seconds
Taken with a Canon 1100D with 18-55mm lens with Japan Optics wide angled fish eye attachment.
I was prepared for imaging Iridium 68 and the ISS but the 2nd flare of Iridium 74 was a surprise! It wasn't listed on Heavens Above, but it was listed on Cal Sky, where it states that Iridium 74 is either a spare satellite or its status is unknown so although the predictions of flare time are accurate, the magnitude listed may vary. The flare definitely looks brighter than its predicted value.
Whilst photographing these I was lucky enough to also catch a meteor which I saw streak through my field of view. Very lucky shot!
Stack of 4 images, ISO-1600, 3 x 1 minute and 1 x 20 seconds
Gloster Meteor F8 WH301 in the colours of 609 Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air force at the RAF Museum, Hendon on 4th June 2012.
Geminids Meteor Shower 2023.
Sky | 1x30s | f/2.8 | ISO 6400
Foreground | 3x10s | f/4 | ISO 500
Geminids | 4x10s | f/2.8 | ISO 6400
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Energized by the long weekend and jumping full- speed into the new week. Hope your weeks are off to a great start, as well. :)
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Orionid Meteor Shower - merged from a few photos that had been taken on the morning on Sunday Morning at Winton Wetlands
Fast moving clouds approaching from the West heralding the approach of storm Barney. Luckily enough a meteor flashed into the shot that aligned nicely with the movement of the clouds.
Techn. data:
1x 25s, f/2.8, ISO 3200 @24mm for foreground,
27x 13s, f/2.8, ISO 8000 @24mm for meteors, out of 1225 frames in total.
Total exposure 5h 07'.
Canon EOS 6D,
Canon EF 24-70 2.8L
Ioptron Skytracker
Perseids meteor shower is happening due to passage of Earth in the orbit of Comet swift - tuttle. This celestial fireworks occurred due to burning of comet debris in our atmosphere. It is the biggest meteor shower of the year. It can reach 60 meteor per hour. Image taken from Bortle sky 3 on 12/08/2021 @ 22:30.
I waited until 8:00 PM local time to setup my equipment for some meteors photography. Always a tough call for me, moon photography or meteors..... After deciding to setup, then it is time for lens selection. I decided to use the Lensbaby Circular Fisheye to capture the entire sky, I sacrifice some image details to capture more of the sky.
An ethernet cable is connected to the Canon 6D camera and the software package Backyard EOS manages the camera. I can't say enough good things about O'Telescope Corporation Backyard EOS software package. They offer a free 30-day trial license, check it out. The setup was for 60-second exposure.
After sorting through 423 sixty-second shots from last night, I managed to snag just one Taurid meteor.
Caught this meteor? whist checking the focus on my trusty 24mm Sigma lens. Taken at 2052 UTC f2.8, 3200 ISO, 15 seconds. This is obviously not the meteor that was observed moving south over Scotland and northern England at around 2140-45 UTC. In fact I am beginning to wonder if it is a meteor at all, due to the apparent slow movement. Other possibilities include 1) an aircraft (extremely unlikely due to the lack of lights and change in brightness), and 2) a flaring satellite, with the exposure ending at the brightest point. How many satellites are heading WSW at 57 N ? I should be able to verify this soon.
Taking many pictures for capturing the Perseid Meteors, the rest of the pictures can be used for a Startrail.
A cold breezy night capturing this lava tree mold at Volcanoes National Park during the Geminid Meteor Shower. This is a composite of all the meteors I captured over the period of an hour of shooting timelapse.
Not the best viewing for the Eta Aquarid meteor shower this morning. Stuck in the city with a setting moon wasn't ideal but managed to capture this meteor. The still image is a stack of 3 images showing the after glow of a bolide meteor train forming. While the video shows the train expanding on subsequent delayed images after the meteor burnt up. Please see previous video on Photostream.
A couple of shooting stars behind a Bristlecone pine. You can also see Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the double cluster, as well as M34.
Westland WAH-64D Apache Helicopter ZJ226 Army Air Corps (British Army) Based at Wattisham Suffolk UK
Photo taken 30th July 2020 at Wattisham operational Army Airfield Suffolk UK
Wattisham airfield was opened in 1939 and used by the RAF as a Bomber base flying Bristol Blenheim Bombers in 1942 it was handed over to the USAAF for the rest of WWII and P-38 Lightning’s and the P-51 Mustang’s use to fly from the base
After WWII the base was handed back to the RAF and other aircraft to have been stationed at Wattisham include Meteors, Hawker Hunters including the Black Arrows formation team, English Electric Lightnings, Gloster Javelin and the McDonnell Douglas Phantoms In 1993 the base was handed over to the Army
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Here's my shot of the Perseid Meteor Shower 2015 radiant point. Shot this photo over a period of three nights, this photo contains 57 Perseid meteors. I shot this at Frosty Drew Observatory in Charlestown, Rhode Island, USA from midnight to 5:00 a.m. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Photo Details:
Camera: Canon 60D MagicLantern
11mm
f/2.8
ISO: 2500
Exposure: 30 seconds * 57 images
This is a composite image of 57 images each containing a meteor.
-Scott MacNeill
As predicted the timing of the shower and the presence of the Moon adversely impacted the shower's presentation in this time zone. But there were meteors, several captured, among them this one transiting the Big Dipper at 6:06 am as the blue glow of the predawn was appearing behind the foothills. The foothills are lit by Moonlight the Moon being out of frame slightly picked up by the curvature of the 14 mm lens
another meteor: flic.kr/p/2koExMu.