Perseids

[Jerry_Lodriguss (Jerry Lodriguss)]

Not sure if this is the correct forum for meteors, so if it's not I apologize.

Here's a composite of the Perseid meteors show with three cameras, a Nikon D810a, and two modified Canon T3i's (600D).

The technical info is with the image here:

http://www.astropix.com/Perseids_2015.html

It took me a while to get this edited because we had a run of clear nights after the night of the peak of the perseids, so I could not pass up the chance to go out and shoot.

717 frames total shot.

24 meteors recorded.

Jerry

[Paul Haese]

That's pretty cool.

[RB (Andrew)]

Wow, awesome shot Jerry.

RB

[RobF (Rob)]

Really love this. Did you actually have more than one camera going at a time at some points if I understand correctly?

[h0ughy (David)]

we witnessed a few Perseids at Queensland Astrofest, to see this work certainly confirms what i saw, which would be upside down to what you captured. i love M31 and the core of the arm great work

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great widefield. Superb color. Very cool composition.

[Jerry_Lodriguss (Jerry Lodriguss)]

Thanks guys!

Rob, Yes, I had 4 cameras going simultaneously. Only used meteors from three of them for this shot however.

Jerry

[Jerry_Lodriguss (Jerry Lodriguss)]

Here's a close-up of a Perseid Meteor vaporizing and leaving behind a persistent train. Click on this link to see the animation of the train expanding and dissipating.

http://www.astropix.com/Perseid_Meteor.html

Jerry

[RobF (Rob)]

Wow, astounding stuff.
Yes, as David says, we were watching these come in "upside down" at Astrofest recently, skimming the surrounding trees and angling upwards from the north (as the odd Aquarias rained down from above).

(thanks to Tony S-H for waking us up to this light show during AF too )