Submissions Gallery: 2013 Perseid Meteors

[zema88]

Startrail & bright meteor
Copyright: Paolo Demaria

In this startrail captured from Bellino (Cn), Italy, I captured a bright meteor, which leaves a 3 minutes tail, as visible in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0hwlw2rC4U

Full resolution: http://www.astrobin.com/51932/

[PeterR]

I composited all the meteors from 5 hours of shooting on the night of 12-13 of August into a single image.

/*Peter R

5 hours of Perseid Meteor Shower

Please, click the image for full size image

[Bonobo]

Perseida tras la cosecha por calle L, 8, en Flickr

Perseida tras la cosecha.
Perseid meteor after harvest.

A Perseid meteor crosses the sky above the Pleiades and the Hyades, under the watchful eye of alpacas straw after the wheat harvest in the Cordoba Countryside. Andalusia, Spain.

© Juan A. Bafalliu, 2013, Spain.

[Steed]

Perseid meteor shower 2013 from China
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steedjoy/9509466625/



Just after midnight on August 12, I captured more than 20 meteors, including a brilliant fireball, in about one and a half hours. They are all Perseid meteors, and each of them seems to be shooting toward the same point.

[Sandgirl]

Perseid Meteor
Copyrights: Jeff Dai

Perseid Meteor
Copyrights: Victor van Wulfen

Fireball Toward Mount Damavand
Copyrights: Mehdi Momenzadeh

Perseid Meteor
Copyrights: Fernando Cabrerizo

[Chris Peterson]

Perseid meteor shower 2013 from China
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steedjoy/9509466625/



Just after midnight on August 12, I captured more than 20 meteors, including a brilliant fireball, in about one and a half hours. They are all Perseid meteors, and each of them seems to be shooting toward the same point.

I'd like to point out that this anti-radiant effect is a consequence of using a wide angle lens, and where it was aimed. At this time, the radiant was above, so visually these meteors would generally be seen as diverging. However, since the radiant is behind the imager, we get the impression of convergence.

All meteor showers appear to diverge from their radiant, and converge on their anti-radiant, on the opposite side of the celestial sphere. Since the radiant is normally above the horizon, the anti-radiant is below it, and we seldom get a visual impression of convergence. This image shows that effect very nicely.

[Sandgirl]

Perseid Shower
Copyrights: Adam Block

Perseids
Copyrights: Michael Ortner

Perseid meteor with trail
Copyrights: Victor van Wulfen

[Clear Skies]

There is a short video of the Perseid meteor + trail at http://www.clearskies.eu/webfiles/temp/ ... 3_720p.mov (16MB).


Victor van Wulfen

[Steed]

Perseid meteor shower 2013 from China
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steedjoy/9509466625/



Just after midnight on August 12, I captured more than 20 meteors, including a brilliant fireball, in about one and a half hours. They are all Perseid meteors, and each of them seems to be shooting toward the same point.

I'd like to point out that this anti-radiant effect is a consequence of using a wide angle lens, and where it was aimed. At this time, the radiant was above, so visually these meteors would generally be seen as diverging. However, since the radiant is behind the imager, we get the impression of convergence.

All meteor showers appear to diverge from their radiant, and converge on their anti-radiant, on the opposite side of the celestial sphere. Since the radiant is normally above the horizon, the anti-radiant is below it, and we seldom get a visual impression of convergence. This image shows that effect very nicely.

Thank you for your explanation!

[lgym]

Perseid shower peak composite startrails image taken in Hungary, Bakony mountains, 12-08-2013 early evening
Photo credits: Monika Landy-Gyebnar

(bigger size: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2828/9515 ... e13a_o.jpg )

The composite pic with the Perseids above the dead tree

(bigger size: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5333/9515 ... 1dd1_o.jpg )

[Sandgirl]

Perseids
Copyrights: Markus Lubjuhn

[canopia]

Actually, if the meteor trains are farther than 90 degrees away from the radiant, they will be closer to the anti-radiant and they will look like converging.

Tunç Tezel
http://www.twanight.org

Perseid meteor shower 2013 from China
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steedjoy/9509466625/



Just after midnight on August 12, I captured more than 20 meteors, including a brilliant fireball, in about one and a half hours. They are all Perseid meteors, and each of them seems to be shooting toward the same point.

I'd like to point out that this anti-radiant effect is a consequence of using a wide angle lens, and where it was aimed. At this time, the radiant was above, so visually these meteors would generally be seen as diverging. However, since the radiant is behind the imager, we get the impression of convergence.

All meteor showers appear to diverge from their radiant, and converge on their anti-radiant, on the opposite side of the celestial sphere. Since the radiant is normally above the horizon, the anti-radiant is below it, and we seldom get a visual impression of convergence. This image shows that effect very nicely.

[Sandgirl]

2013 Perseids in Zhangbei Prairie
Copyrights: Xiang Zhan

2013 Perseids Meteor Shower
Copyrights: Dennis Huff

[sathya]

Chasing the Perseids
http://bit.ly/18r1cPV
Copyright: Sathya (LikeTheOcean Photography)

http://photos.liketheocean.com/Portfoli ... 026-X3.jpg

[Petr H.]

Pathways Of Perseid Meteors
Copyright: Petr Horálek, Úpice observatory

A mosaic of maximum of Perseid meteor shower from Ivan Dolac (Hvar island, Croatia) above peaks Začerbina and Gvozd. The image shows 79 meteors of Perseid meteor shower cought from 7th to 14th August 2013. The brightest meteor was about -8 magnitude. The image in higher dimension (2000x1305 px): http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/gallery/ ... 2000px.JPG.

Click to view full size image

[geckzilla]

Seems like the Perseids have put on a nice show this year.

[Sandgirl]

Capriconid
Peter van Leuteren

Perseids
Copyrights: Martin Gembec

[MaG]

Please let you know, that the Perseid image is not mine, but Petr Horalek's. But I think, it's a pitty, that it wasn't an APOD for 2013 Perseids.

Thanks

Martin Gembec

[Sandgirl]

M31,Double cluster & Perseid meteor shower
Copyrights: Luo Cheng

Perseid meteor shower pass by NGC7000
Copyrights: Luo Cheng

Perseid Maximum from France
Copyrights: Peter van Leuteren

[Nuitsacrees]

Under the Starry Clouds
http://www.nuitsacrees.fr
Copyright: Stephane Vetter


During the night from 12th august to 13th, cloudy but starry ...
Stephane

[Bonobo]

100 shooting stars. The most, Perseids.
3 whole nights.

Here, two versions. The second, with 100 shooting stars counted one to one.
The best viewing HD-1080p

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

100 estrellas fugaces fueron cazadas por la cámara durante tres noches, 11, 12 y 13 de Agosto 2013.
1800 fotografías de 30 segundos de exposición y 5 segundos de intervalo.
Tres noches con una temperatura agradable, en los alrededores de la Fuente "La Minguilla", Castro del Río, Campiña Cordobesa, en pleno Valle del Guadalquivir, en mitad de Andalucía, al sur de la Península Ibérica, España.
Algunos aviones y satélites artificiales se unieron a la lluvia de estrellas.

100 shooting stars were hunted by the camera for three nights, 11, 12 and August 13, 2013.
1800 photos 30 seconds exposure to 5 second intervals.
Three nights with a comfortable temperature in the vicinity of the Fountain "The Minguilla" Castro del Río, Córdoba countryside, in Valle del Guadalquivir, in the middle of Andalusia, south of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain.
Some airplanes and satellites joined the meteor shower.
© Juan A. Bafalliu, Spain, 2013