Perseids Meteor Shower 2008 - a photo on Flickriver

Perseids Meteor Shower 2008

A star-trails photo I shot during the Perseids meteor shower while visiting my in-laws cabin in North Carolina. You can see a single meteor streak in the upper right corner when viewed large. Although the meteors were plentiful at this time just before dawn, most were too faint to register on the camera's sensor (or a dark-frame subtraction was occurring while I missed a shot).

The glow in the distance is the accumulated light from the city glow of Boone, NC. The actual conditions appeared much darker.

[Info: 594 second (9 minutes. 54 second) exposure at ƒ/4, ISO 400, 10mm. This time of night also allowed the half-full moon to have set already and the air was absolutely still. The direction of the shot is 271°, so the radiant is nearly behind the camera.]

©2008 David C. Pearson, M.D.

Taken in: United States / North Carolina / Todd (show map)

Taken on: August 12, 2008

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meteor shower

perseids

astrophotography

night photography

sky

night

glow

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