Image Description and Details : Perseids Meteor Shower is probably the most beautiful of all, because of the Milky Way aligning in south-west direction during this time of the year. This is exactly opposite to the radiant point of these meteors (Perseus Constellation) which is in the north-east sky, and hence the opportunity to see meteors flying over the Milky Way's galactic center! This is a stack of images collected over the nights of August 11th and 12th at Joshua Tree National Park. The lone Joshua Tree in front of the park's Jumbo Rocks area gave me a gorgeous foreground, thanks to Google Maps and an hour of scouting. Although my camera captured only 14 meteors along with a huge Fireball, we could see many more meteors outside the lens' field of view with our naked eyes and every single meteor had people shouting in joy.
The past few months and years have clearly shown the devastating effects of climate change and to add to the long list of consequences, the California wildfires from Climate Change also meant smoky skies for most of the northern part. Clear skies may not be on top of the priority list, but this would mean we can no longer preserve the natural beauty of night sky, thereby affecting the millions of animals and plants that need clear skies to survive at night. It's imperative that we all act immediately with small steps and preserve what nature has created for us having endured a multitude of external factors. Dedicating this post to the brave firefighters @calfire who have been battling to contain one of the biggest wildfires in recent history.
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Foreground: Shot under blue-hour, Nikon D850, Sigma 20 mm f1.4 @f9, ISO 400, 60 secs exposure.
Sky: Tracked Milky Way shot at f1.8, ISO 800, 60 seconds exposure
Meteors: Timelapse shots at f1.8, ISO 800, 10 seconds exposure

Copyright: Arjun Raju

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Geminids 2020 meteor shower composite panorama. This years maximum night was really crazy for me. I spent 10 hours on the slope of Elbrus mountain at an altitude of 4000m with completely clear sky and fascinating transparency of the atmosphere. Luckily the weather was calm with modest wind and just -15C degrees.I was lucky to witness ~720 Geminid meteors, catching ~150 of them in frames as my cameras made continiously 1300+ shots. Was easily the most impessive meteor shower i've seen so far with, thanks to unique observing conditions. Canon 6Da + Tamron15-30 f2.8 iso5000 20s - 16shots pano for the sky is stereographic projectionContinious shooting on 2 cameras for meteors:Canon 6Da + Tamron15-30 f2.8 iso6400 30s - 720 shots.Canon 5D2 + Samyang 24 f2.0 iso5000 20s - 600 shots.

Copyright: Mike Reva

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Composite picture with 40 images.Each shooting stars have been replaced by matching the stars,to get the radiant position.We can see +/- 35 meteors on the composite picture,sometimes i caught 2 meteors on the same exposure.I shot this picture from France,near my village Hindlingen,Alsace country.Canon 6D astro with 20mm Lens at F1,4 wide open.Single tripod.10s 3200 isos at F1,4.



Copyright Information: Arnaud BESANÇON