Perseid meteor shower

It's that time of the year again. Anybody else went hunting meteors?

This year I went to a better spot (though still not really dark skies), and stayed longer, so I saw a lot more than last year. I'm still processing most of the pictures (I now officially hate airplanes ...) but here's a first composite.

Pfäffikersee, Switzerland.
Canon 6D, Zeiss 21mm, 15s f/2.8 ISO 2500.
8 exposures composited.
 

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In Michigan we had rain until Saturday night, once the clouds cleared I had to deal with a 62% moon that just didn't want to set, I finally left the beach at 2:35 am. I saw quite a few but not very visible because of the moon, this one was the brightest.
Little Sable Point Lighthouse on Lake Michigan.

I also shot a timelapse, I hope videos are allowed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBcC8zclujM
 

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d4mike said:
In Michigan we had rain until Saturday night, once the clouds cleared I had to deal with a 62% moon that just didn't want to set, I finally left the beach at 2:35 am. I saw quite a few but not very visible because of the moon, this one was the brightest.
Little Sable Point Lighthouse on Lake Michigan.

I also shot a timelapse, I hope videos are allowed.


Very nice picture, Mike.

Well done with the timelapse.
 
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To all,

I'm a little late in posting these images; nevertheless, I worked really hard on them and feel they are worth posting for others to see. These four composite images were taken with various cameras and lenses. Overall, I took over 20,000 images over three days using six cameras. I was lucky enough to experience the outburst the night of August 11th. It was an awesome show. It's too bad the Moon interfered so much.

Thanks for looking,

Wade
 

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wearle said:
To all,

I'm a little late in posting these images; nevertheless, I worked really hard on them and feel they are worth posting for others to see. These four composite images were taken with various cameras and lenses. Overall, I took over 20,000 images over three days using six cameras. I was lucky enough to experience the outburst the night of August 11th. It was an awesome show. It's too bad the Moon interfered so much.

Thanks for looking,

Wade

Thank you for posting! Really nicely done!
 
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wearle said:
To all,

I'm a little late in posting these images; nevertheless, I worked really hard on them and feel they are worth posting for others to see. These four composite images were taken with various cameras and lenses. Overall, I took over 20,000 images over three days using six cameras. I was lucky enough to experience the outburst the night of August 11th. It was an awesome show. It's too bad the Moon interfered so much.

Thanks for looking,

Wade

Fantastic images, as usual !
Thanks for sharing.
 
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