Perseids on Peak Eve
Taken by Alan Dyer on August 11, 2015 @
near Gleichen, Alberta
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 6D
Exposure Time: 60/1
Aperture: Unavailable
ISO: 3200
Date Taken: 2015:08:12 15:59:21
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It was a fine night for meteor watching - warm, dry, few bugs, and mostly clear. I set up three cameras all with wide angle lenses in hopes of catching meteors. Of course the best "wow!" meteor of the night -- bright and shooting down the Cygnus Milky Way -- was a few minutes before I got the camera going to shoot that very area of sky. And when I did get it started, the next brightest meteor in the area for the night happened in the 3 second interval between the first test frames. How do meteors know?? :)
But the other wider cameras (the shots here with 14 and 15mm lenses) picked up enough meteors out of 2 hours of shooting to show the radiant point in Perseus. Each image is a stack of 7 to 10 images, each with a meteor. I shot these from southern Alberta, Canada, where, despite the indicators suggesting no activity, there was a mild aurora to the northeast.
Photographer's website:
http://www.amazingsky.net
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