Perseids 2020
This year’s Perseid meteor shower in northern Colorado was marked by smoky skies and moonshine during the best viewing times. However there were fairly clear skies the last night of “peak” viewing, and even with the thin veil of haze the show was beautiful.
This photo is a compilation of 16 shots, one for the base (foreground snags and stars) taken fairly early in the evening, and the others with individual meteor trails added adjusting for the approximate orientation to the constellation Perseus, in the northern portion of the Milky Way. The tree snags are wind-sculpted limber pines on Grassy Top, a promontory on the east side of the Front Range near Ward, CO.
The colors in the meteor streaks are due to ionization of elements in the dust particles (from comet Swift-Tuttle) as they burn up in the atmosphere. Perseids are characteristically a mix of pink, blue and green as you can see here.
Perseids 2020
This year’s Perseid meteor shower in northern Colorado was marked by smoky skies and moonshine during the best viewing times. However there were fairly clear skies the last night of “peak” viewing, and even with the thin veil of haze the show was beautiful.
This photo is a compilation of 16 shots, one for the base (foreground snags and stars) taken fairly early in the evening, and the others with individual meteor trails added adjusting for the approximate orientation to the constellation Perseus, in the northern portion of the Milky Way. The tree snags are wind-sculpted limber pines on Grassy Top, a promontory on the east side of the Front Range near Ward, CO.
The colors in the meteor streaks are due to ionization of elements in the dust particles (from comet Swift-Tuttle) as they burn up in the atmosphere. Perseids are characteristically a mix of pink, blue and green as you can see here.