Persied Meteor Shower 2013: Images from Around the World

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A composite of stacked images of the Perseid Meteor Shower on August 11, 2013 seen from Lindisfarne (Holy Island) off the northeast coast of England. Credit and copyright: Peter Greig.

The Perseid Meteor Shower peaks tonight, but already astrophotographers have been out, enjoying the view of a little cosmic rain.

This weekend provided good views for many, as these images and videos will attest. We’ll keep adding more images as they come in, but enjoy these wonderful images we’ve received so far. Our lead image is a wowza from Peter Greig from the UK. He traveled to an island off the coast of England and found exactly what he was looking for.

“This is the exact image that I imagined and planned to come home with from that trip,” Peter said via Flickr. “It is a composite of stacked images (or pieces of images). I chose the clearest background image to use for the starry sky then chose the best light painted foreground and layered it over my background. I then went through all of my images and gathered all the shots that contained a meteor, cut them out and layered them on top of my background image to demonstrate the radiant point to which the Perseid Meteors originate.”


Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/104024/persied-meteor-shower-2013-images-from-around-the-world/

[Tansy_Gold]

1. I only saw 2 last night

But I'll be out again tonight.

Too kewl!

[darkangel218]

2. Only two?? i was out between 2 and 4 am, i saw dozens of them!! sometimes just seconds apart!

All kind of colours too.

Some were going slower than others. The bigger ones seemed to go slower.

It was freaking awesome!!

[Tansy_Gold]

4. 10 p.m. pacific time

I'll try later tonight.

The two I saw were very bright and yes, quite slow moving.

I usually manage to catch a glimpse of a few every year. My lawn chair is already set up!

[Graybeard]

3. The natural fireworks of the cosmos.

Can't see much here with haze and city lights. And it's been rainy and cloudy too. It must be awesome.

[InkAddict]

5. Well, perhaps you can't do anything about the weather

Graybeard, et al, you might enjoy this page:

but you could always practice dark conservation by fighting against light pollution. Amazing that there are only 8 places on earth that have been certified as truly dark. Apparently, there is a Smartphone app that will measure the darkness of one's location and report the level of darkness and GPS co-ordinates to a group that is trying to map the darkness more completely. Anymore, with certain other "news" stories recently, that might be a bit over-the-top in information gathering, but there are those who would like to help preserve and protect the "dark" of night in an international effort. There's a certified dark spot in my state - yours?

http://www.darksky.org/

[xxqqqzme]

6. Cheated again!

Solid marine layer the last 2 nights. Bummed