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I eventually managed to capture one of the Perseid meteor shower pictured with Sir John Barrow monument in South Cumbria.
Taken 7 Nov 22 with GoPro in RAW mode. While waiting for the start of the total lunar eclipse, I was hoping to catch a bright Taurid meteor. The characteristic multiple explosions and white color says this is a Taurid. Exposure 30s, iso 800. Meteor was probably -2 magnitude under a very bright full moon.
A much brighter Taurid occurred a bit later: www.flickr.com/photos/cloud_spirit/52489528085
Picture of the Day x 2
I got lucky with this shot capturing a meteor from the Perseid Meteor Shower event as it passed trough the Milky Way.
Scenic Rim, Queensland, Australia.
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’.
Some years ago I posted a version of this composite image and noted it was slightly misshapen. That prompted me to revisit it recently with the above result, which I think is quite an improvement.
More commonly known as Meteor Crater, this is a meteorite impact crater some 60 km east of Flagstaff and 29 km west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. Because the US Board on Geographic Names commonly recognises names of natural features derived from the nearest post office, the feature acquired the name of "Meteor Crater" from the nearby post office named Meteor.
The site was formerly known as the Canyon Diablo Crater and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite. Scientists refer to the crater as Barringer Crater in honour of Daniel Barringer, who was first to suggest that it was produced by meteorite impact. The crater is privately owned by the Barringer family through their Barringer Crater Company, which proclaims it to be the "best preserved meteorite crater on Earth". (I'm not sure whether it is or is not the best-preserved, but it is certainly an amazing sight).
Despite its importance as a geological site, the crater is not protected as a national monument, a status that would require federal ownership. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in November 1967.
Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of about 1,740m above sea level. It is about 1,200m in diameter, some 170m deep, and is surrounded by a rim that rises 45m above the surrounding plains. The centre of the crater is filled with 210-240m of rubble lying above crater bedrock. One of the interesting features of the crater is its squared-off outline, believed to be caused by existing regional jointing (cracks) in the strata at the impact site.
The crater was created about 50,000 years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, when the local climate on the Colorado Plateau was much cooler and damper. The area was an open grassland dotted with woodlands inhabited by woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths. The crater was over 10,000 years old when the first humans saw it, at the earliest, 40,000 years ago.
The object that excavated the crater was a nickel-iron meteorite about 50m across. The speed of the impact has been a subject of some debate. Modelling initially suggested that the meteorite struck at up to 20 km/s (45,000 mph) but more recent research suggests the impact was substantially slower, at 12.8 km/s (28,600 mph). It is believed that about half of the impactor's bulk was vaporised during its descent. Impact energy has been estimated at about 10 megatons. The meteorite was mostly vaporised upon impact, leaving little in the crater.
In the late 19th/early 20th century, there was considerable scientific debate about the crater's origins. However, it was not until 1960 that later research by Eugene Shoemaker confirmed Daniel Barringer's hypothesis. The key discovery was the presence in the crater of the minerals coesite and stishovite, rare forms of silica found only where quartz-bearing rocks have been severely shocked by an instantaneous overpressure. It cannot be created by volcanic action; the only known mechanisms of creating it is naturally through an impact event, or artificially through a nuclear explosion.
Shoemaker's discovery is considered the first definitive proof of an extraterrestrial impact on the Earth's surface. Since then, numerous impact craters have been identified around the world, though Meteor Crater remains one of the most visually impressive owing to its size, young age and lack of vegetative cover.
Shoemaker went on train the Apollo astronauts and further fame in 1993 as the co-discoverer of Shoemaker-Levy 9. I met him in Washington DC a year before he was killed in an accident in Australia in 1997. Some of his ashes were transported to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe and to date he remains the only person to have been buried on the Moon.
This four-frame panorama is made from scanned negatives. I took them from above the visitor centre (its roof is partially visible in the lower foreground). The man on the left helps give a bit of a sense of the scale.
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.
Meteor F.8 VH-MBX/A77-851 of the Temora Aviation Museum at the 2015 Australian International Airshow
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
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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My first image so far of the Perseid Meteor Shower last Saturday night. I took 90 sec exposures, ISO 1600, F2.8 14mm lens, modified Canon Rebel on a Star-Adventurer tracker, and then picked out the shots that had a meteor. I then processed and layered them on top of each other. Northern Arizona.
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.
Now over 70 years old and still being used commercially, Martin-Baker ejection seat test bed aircraft Meteor WA638 departs from Fairford having taken part in the static display at the 2023 Royal International Air Tattoo.
Aircraft: Gloster Meteor T.7(Mod) WA638 (G-JWMA).
Location: RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.
Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor F.8 VZ467 / 01 of no.1 TWU at RAF Brawdy.
This was in service until 1982 when it was sold to a civil operator. It was then exported to Australia in 2001 and is now part of the RAAF's Air Force Heritage Collection.
(slide ref S071-28, Minolta SRT-101)
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
In this one minute exposure, a Geminid meteor streaks across the sky as the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015 in Kazakhstan. The annual Geminid meteor shower peaks on December 13 this year. To get a good look, weather permitting, find the darkest place at night, lay down and look straight up at the sky.
Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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.
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.
Taking many pictures for capturing the Perseid Meteors, the rest of the pictures can be used for a Startrail.
Energized by the long weekend and jumping full- speed into the new week. Hope your weeks are off to a great start, as well. :)
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.
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.
This is a composite of 360 shots to form the star trails, capturing a Perseid meteor as well. Shot during a wild camp on Snowdon, looking over towards the Glyders