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Ghost Nebula and Perseid meteor
Copyright: Kevin Black Perseid, Mars, Jupiter and Orion
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Copyright: Dani Caxete

As the weather forecast looks rather bad for the days ahead, I spent 3 hours tonight photographing the sky with a fisheye lens, hoping to catch some early Perseids.
I managed to get a total of 8 and a great number of flashing satellites that can sometimes be mistaken for meteors. Satellites typically stretch over several frames as they move slowly across the sky and the flash has a more symetrical light curve.
Stockholm might not be the best place to observe faint meteors from because of the light polution but this Perseid turned out really bright and colorful.

/*Peter R
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The show is getting more intense and my camera just made it capturing this bright Perseid meteor before the clouds came in. I've noticed it from my shadow since I was focusing the telescope at the moment of appearance...

The image was made with a Canon 5D and a Rokinon 14mm lens at f/2.8
Lets hope that tomorrow it will be clear in Greece and that will get another chance to observe the meteor shower!

Kind regards
Constantine Emmanouilidi

Perseids from the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center
Washburn-Norlands Living History Center
Canon T2i
ProOptic 8mm fish eye lens f/3.5
Single 30 second exposure
August 5, 2013
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Copyright: Steve Coates

Perseids from the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center
Washburn-Norlands Living History Center
Canon T2i
ProOptic 8mm fish eye lens f/3.5
Single 30 second exposure
August 5, 2013
http://coatesastrophotography.com/p5110 ... #h68cfe717
Copyright: Steve Coates

Perseid Meteors

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Copyright: Scott MacNeill

Perseids
Copyrights: Darryl Van Gaal

Perseid 2013 against the background of an approaching storm
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Aleksey Degtyarev

Straight through the basket



Copyright: Hrvoje Jukica
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Video allsky image of Perseid shower over Colorado, on the evening of August 11/12. This shows 85 Perseids (non-Perseids have been removed) captured between dusk and dawn. The count is a bit low since we're still in the monsoonal weather pattern, and there were scattered clouds throughout the night as well as some thin haze.

The shower peaked locally between 1am and 4am, and most of the captured meteors fell in that interval. Given the high radiant declination (just 30° from the pole), three hours just isn't long enough for the radiant to drift all that much, which makes its general location very obvious from apparent origin of the meteors in this image.

2013 Perseids Radiant Point

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Copyright: Scott MacNeill

Monster Mojave Perseid Meteor
Copyrights: Wally Pacholka

Faint but Fast Perseid
Copyright: RQ Fugate

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Red Desert Perseid - Perseid Meteor and the Milky Way, in the Red Desert of Wyoming. Single exposure from timelapse. The foreground was lit up with a lantern.
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Rainbow Perseid - A multicolored Perseid Meteor, from the Red Desert of Wyoming on 8-11-13.
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"Perseids over Joshua Tree"

The Perseids gave a great show these past couple of nights to all stargazers around the globe. I was fortunate to have clear skies everywhere I shot them. I started off friday morning in Joshua Tree National Park when I was coming home from a road-trip up the Northern Coast of California. I've been to Joshua Tree before, but never on a clear night. I was amazed at how bright the sky is on a moon-less night. The stars lit up the Mohave Desert naturally and made it easy to navigate the park with little or no light from my headlamp. It also took very little adjusting to bring out the details when processing this image.

Now onto the technical specs of this image...This is a composite image composed of 180 stills from a static timelapse sequence I shot aiming towards North Star where the constellation and radiant point "Perseus" was located about 40 degrees from. I shot at 20 second exposures with 1 second delay in between exposures. This allows you to create gapless startrails in your startrail images. The exposures were then stacked using a program called "StarStax" using the "lighten" mode which blended all 180 jpeg's into a single frame. I then browsed through all 180 images and used the selective tool to boost each individual shooting star so they would pop out of the startrail.
Stray Perseid over the WIYN Telescope at Kitt Peak Observatory in Tucson, AZ.

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Perseus' Fireball
An exploding meteorite or fireball of the 2013 Perseid meteor shower above the Horst castle, near Leuven, Belgium. The fireball is a really magical experience and I was lucky enough to capture this fireball between the clouds that night!
Copyright: Tom Davidson (http://www.facebook.com/tom.ej.davidson) Full version: http://www.flickr.com/photos/88100135@N02/9496788419/

Perseid, Jupiter, Taurus and Orion in Crimea sky
Place: Kaya-rock near city ​​of Sudak, Crimea, Ukraine.
Canon EOS 1100D
«Zenitar-M» 16 mm fish-eye lens /2.8
Single 30-second exposure, ISO 3200
August 10, 2013
Copyright: Maxim Silantyev, Anna Silantyeva

Perseid meteor shower 2013
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Copyright: Emil Ivanov, IRIDA Observatory Details and bigger size available here

Hello.

This perseid fell while I was explaining the sky in Torralba del Burgo, Soria (Spain).

Accumulated observations 428.


Time: 2013.8.12 22:00 ~ 8.13 05:30 (GMT+8:00)
Localtion : Twin Towers, YinChuan, Ningxia, China

Figure tower is the East Tower.

Perseida sobre La Minguilla por calle L, 8, en Flickr

Perseida sobre la Campiña Cordobesa. Andalucía, España.
Perseid over the Cordoba Countryside. Andalusia, Spain.

Una Perseida parece utilizar la Vía Láctea como autopista, sobre una casa de campo en ruinas.
A Perseid seems to use the Milky Way as a motorway, on a cottage in ruins.

© Juan A. Bafalliu, 2013, Spain.

Another 80 Perseids captured last night (Aug 12/13), bringing the total for two nights up to 165. Lots of fireballs. More information, including videos of some of the fireballs is here.

Una Perseida sobre La Minguilla por calle L, 8, en Flickr

Noche de Verano boreal y Perseida.
Summer Night and Perseid.

Noche de verano en el hemisferio norte. Una perseida amenaza con terminar de destruir una casa de campo ya en ruinas.
Summer night in the northern hemisphere. A Perseid meteor threatens to finish destroying a country house in ruins.

© Juan A. Bafalliu, 2013, Spain.