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Submission Gallery: 2012 Perseid Meteor Shower

Post by owlice » Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:28 pm


Please post your 2012 Perseid meteor images on this thread. Please see this thread before posting images; posting images demonstrates your agreement with the possible uses for your image.

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Post by owlice » Sat Aug 11, 2012 4:42 pm

Fireball over Zapato de la Reina
Copyright: Roberto Porto
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Niedersachsen Perseids
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Post by owlice » Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:20 pm

Perseid over Szent Gyorgy Hill
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Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi
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Post by owlice » Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:46 am

Perseids in Cygnus
http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/index.htm
Copyright: Thierry Lombry
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Post by lup974 » Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:38 am

Perseid above the Reunion Island
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Copyright: Luc Perrot A Perseid photographed with the Moon, Jupiter and Venus above the highest mountain of Reunion Island, The Piton des Neiges (3070m). Below, the lights of Cirque of Cilaos.

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Post by jesperg » Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:18 am

Green Perseid Meteor - Yellow/green Sporadic Meteor/Fireball - Summer Milky Way - Earth

August 11th. 2012 Denmark
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Post by StefanoDeRosa » Sun Aug 12, 2012 6:17 pm

Perseid fireball over Isola d'Elba
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Copyright: Stefano De Rosa Please find above the image of a Perseid fireball captured early in the morning of August 12, 2012 from the Remaiolo Beach in island of Elba (Isola d'Elba), near the town of Capoliveri, Italy. You can find other images of the same session here: http://stefanoderosa.com/2012/08/12/per ... ola-delba/

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Post by Chris Peterson » Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:44 pm

Perseids over Colorado
2012-Perseids-(filtered_0801-0811).jpg
318 Perseid meteors from 1 August to 12 August, with the Moon and non-Perseids removed, captured on an allsky video camera.

2012-Perseids-(0811).jpg
123 Perseid meteors from the evening of 11/12 August.

More information, including some videos, can be found here.
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Post by Kevin Pelletier » Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:28 pm

Perseids in Northern Ontario, Canada
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Post by Jaroslaw Smolar » Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:51 pm

Copyright: Jaroslaw Smolar
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Post by owlice » Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:39 pm

Perseid over North Carolina
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Copyright: Chris Mullis
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Meteors over Weikersheim, Germany
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Great conjunction and Perseid in Andalucia (South Spain)

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Great conjunction and Perseida in Andalucia (South Spain)

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Post by owlice » Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:32 pm

Meteors over Austria
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Perseid over a dead elm
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Post by owlice » Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:28 am

Iridium Flare and Perseid
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Copyright: Achim Schaller
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Post by davidkingham » Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:51 am

7 Hours of Perseids
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Post by owlice » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:15 am

Fireball over Iran
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Post by mojtaba.moghadasi » Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:34 am

one Fireball and 16 perseid Meteor in the one fram... (composite)
Taftan Volcano mountain - Khash - Iran
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Post by jackfusco » Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:59 pm

August 13 - Planetary alignment & Perseids meteor from Sea Isle City, NJ
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Post by Bonobo (jabc) » Mon Aug 13, 2012 3:13 pm

Great conjunction and Perseid between a veil of clouds in Andalucia (South Spain)
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Post by Hung-Hsuan Yen » Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:55 pm

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Post by Marc Deldem » Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:53 pm

Perseid near the Pises Observatory in the Cévennes National Park, France
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A Perseid just after the rising of the moon reflecting in the lake of Pises.
August 10th. 2012.
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Post by Nuitsacrees » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:48 pm

Perseids, Planets and Moon
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Copyright: Stephane Vetter An annotated version : A picture, one shoot, under the eye of the cow ...

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Post by mojtaba.moghadasi » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:54 pm

one Fireball and 16 perseid Meteor in the one fram... (composite)
Taftan Volcano mountain - Khash - Iran
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Post by addicted2light » Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:51 pm

Perseids: From dusk till dawn
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