Perseids Meteor Shower

[Leah Andres]

I shot these last night at about 2 am, during the peak of the annual Perseids Meteor Shower. Thanks for looking

[Hayward Taylor]

Hi Leah - wow - this is very interesting .. was it visible everywhere .. I would have love to stay up and take photos .. very nice

[jack russell]

and now i'm looking at cloud cover and not much else .. except for your great captures!!

[Leah Andres]

Thanks, Hayward .. it was amazing to watch. It should be visible in most of the northern hemisphere. I saw most of them between 1am & 2am MST last night. They will continue to be visible until approximately the 24th.

[Angelb]

Hey, these are really cool clear shots. What an amazing sight to see and capture. Thanks for sharing it with those of us that didn't get to see it first hand.

[Fred flyfisher]

Totally awesome!

[T.R.R]

I am completely jealous, I meant to get and take some pictures myself, but I over slept last night. Maybe I will try tomorrow morning...... I hope they are still out in force, or I will be sad.

[cgcaudle]

What were your setting for capturing these? I was out in the middle of nowhere and setup shots from 100 ISO to 1600 ISO with f3.5 and could only capture stars. I has a few streak across the lens, but they did not show up in my final shot.

[dlalonde]

Lucky captures. They look great.

[Leah Andres]

I used my 50 mm F1.8 lens, wide open with a 20 second exposure. I tried using my 3.5 lens, but the exposures had to be too long, and anything that passed by ended up as a faint streak in the final shot.

The 50 mm lens covers a very narrow area of the sky, so I aimed at the Perseus constellation (just below Cassiopeia), and got lucky

Of the 267 shots I took, these are the only 2 with a clear result. 2 others had a faint streak where a meteor had passed, but I think I'm the only one that could pick it out

Next year I'm hoping to get my hands on a nice wide angle lens. A fish-eye would work nicely, I bet!