Perseid Meteor Shower 2021 (Dean Carr)

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Perseid Meteor Shower 2021

This composite picture of the Perseid meteor shower is based on images taken on 12 August 2021from Mount Seymour, one of the local mountains near Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.

For practical and safety reasons, I set up in a car parking area (part of the way up the mountain) to take the images. This also allowed for some lighting of foreground trees by passing vehicles. Imaging was seriously limited by skyglow from the city below, many clouds, and (sadly) smoke from the extensive wildfires across the Province at the time.

Images of meteors observed throughout the night have been overlaid together on a base image of the sky (at a selected reference time). To do this, meteor images taken at different times have been rotated to preserve their general orientations relative to the celestial sphere (and Perseus of course).

Most satellite trails have been removed from the composition to avoid too much confusion with genuine meteors observed on the same night. See my separate post on Astrobin showing just how many satellite trails crossed the camera’s view. However, I have left a few satellite trails in the image to add a bit more to the overall scene. I will leave it to the reader to decide which trails are meteors or satellites 😊

An annotated version is included in the version history.

Equipment used included a Nikon D750 camera and a Sigma Art 20mm f/1.4 lens on a fixed tripod. Settings were f/1.8, ISO 1600.

Sky and foreground: 21 x 13 seconds. Meteors (one or more in a frame): 14 x 13 seconds

Processed in PixInsight, Sequator, and Nikon NX Studio.

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