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
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.
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.
Re: Submissions Gallery: 2013 Perseid Meteors
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 7:49 pm
by Sandgirl
Perseid Meteor Copyrights: Jeff Dai
Perseid Meteor Copyrights: Victor van Wulfen
Fireball Toward Mount Damavand Copyrights: Mehdi Momenzadeh
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.
Re: Submissions Gallery: 2013 Perseid Meteors
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:41 pm
by Sandgirl
Perseid Shower Copyrights: Adam Block
Perseids Copyrights: Michael Ortner
Perseid meteor with trail Copyrights: Victor van Wulfen
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!
Re: Submissions Gallery: 2013 Perseid Meteors
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 4:58 pm
by lgym
Perseid shower peak composite startrails image taken in Hungary, Bakony mountains, 12-08-2013 early evening
Photo credits: Monika Landy-Gyebnar
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.
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.
Re: Submissions Gallery: 2013 Perseid Meteors
Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:02 pm
by Sandgirl
2013 Perseids in Zhangbei Prairie Copyrights: Xiang Zhan
2013 Perseids Meteor Shower Copyrights: Dennis Huff
Re: Submissions Gallery: 2013 Perseid Meteors
Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 9:52 pm
by sathya
Chasing the Perseids http://bit.ly/18r1cPV
Copyright: Sathya (LikeTheOcean Photography)
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.
During the night from 12th august to 13th, cloudy but starry ...
Stephane
Re: Submissions Gallery: 2013 Perseid Meteors
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:52 am
by 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.