Perseid Meteor Shower
Taken by Jeremy Perez on August 13, 2019 @
Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Exposure Time: 4/1
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 3200
Date Taken: 2019:08:16 00:35:45
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Details:
Left the camera on the back porch for nearly 4 hours Tuesday morning—810–1150 UT. It wound up snagging 42 Perseids and a couple sporadics. This is a composite of all those, stacked onto the image that showed the brightest Perseid diving into the tree.
Exposures were short, 4 seconds long at f/2.8. I usually de-rotate all images to align each meteor to the star field it passed through. The problem is that the sequence is so long and the horizon is too irregular and intrusive to do that successfully. So I left them in their original positions, which means they don't appear to be coming from the same radiant.
The nice thing about this approach is I don't have to eliminate any meteors that cross the horizon. Would've been sad to lose any of the bright ones doing that here.
Even though the moon intruded for most of that time, it was a really good display...that I was either working or sleeping through while the camera toiled.
Photographer's website:
https://www.instagram.com/jperezmedia
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