Perseid Meteors
Taken by Jan Curtis on August 12, 2020 @
Bighorn Mountain, Wyoming
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D7100
Exposure Time: 11/1
Aperture: f/2.0
ISO: 3200
Date Taken: 2020:08:15 12:33:09
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Details:
Taken between 12:51AM and 4:18AM looking west (elevation 8,000 feet, Bortle 1 skies). I decided to use the Milky Way as the background (at 1:16AM) with Jupiter in the lower left. Moon caused the bluish tint to the sky.
This image represents 1/70th of the entire sky. During the 3.5 hours represented in this composite image of 26 raw images, I averaged 7.3 meteors/hour. The brighest 3 meteors probably reached -2 magnitude and the faintest recorded was probably +4. Anyway, I would say that the ZHR (what could be in theory seen overhead) reached ~105 (meteors/hour). While many were disappointed with this year's display, under rural clear skies, the Perseids delivered.
Location: ~12 miles east of Ten Sleep, Wyoming in the Bighorn Mountains off US 16 (Boulder Campground).
Nikon d7100, Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 @
ƒ/2.0
11s
iso 3200
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