Perseid Meteor Shower 2016
Perseid meteor shower from Grassy Top Colorado. This photo includes a collation of the 16 brightest meteors out of the 74 detectable in the 400+ shots I took early Thursday morning. I've corrected the angle of the trajectories to account for the Earth's rotation during the 4 hours the photos were taken. The lines of the meteor streaks point to the same point in the sky near the constellation Perseus (thus the Perseid meteor shower). The base photo was taken just as the moon was setting, which is the illumination source for the snag and forest of limber pines.
The short very bright meteor streak near the radiant had a small faint red arcing cloud that spread out from this bright point in the next several frames (30 sec exposures). There was no cloud in the previous shots. Does anyone have a clue what this might have been?
These streaks are from particles the size of sand from debris left from Comet Swift-Tuttle. The color of the streaks is real and not from jacked up saturation levels The specific colors are associated with the minerals found in the comet dust. (#1)
Perseid Meteor Shower 2016
Perseid meteor shower from Grassy Top Colorado. This photo includes a collation of the 16 brightest meteors out of the 74 detectable in the 400+ shots I took early Thursday morning. I've corrected the angle of the trajectories to account for the Earth's rotation during the 4 hours the photos were taken. The lines of the meteor streaks point to the same point in the sky near the constellation Perseus (thus the Perseid meteor shower). The base photo was taken just as the moon was setting, which is the illumination source for the snag and forest of limber pines.
The short very bright meteor streak near the radiant had a small faint red arcing cloud that spread out from this bright point in the next several frames (30 sec exposures). There was no cloud in the previous shots. Does anyone have a clue what this might have been?
These streaks are from particles the size of sand from debris left from Comet Swift-Tuttle. The color of the streaks is real and not from jacked up saturation levels The specific colors are associated with the minerals found in the comet dust. (#1)