By Nina Gorenstein | 2024-08-14
Perseids at full Glory!
On 08/13/2024 03:30 am by Adeel Shafiq| Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan
This year's peak of the Perseid meteor shower will be a night I would remember for times to come as it gave me so many shooting stars in so little time. I witnessed about a hundred meteors with my naked eye and depending upon the frequency of fireballs and relatively bright meteors I decided to choose this frame and kept shooting for quite some time and to my luck I got not one but seven meteors in the same frame over a period of about 2 hours out of which 2 were fireballs.
Here is a composite of all the meteors I captured on the night of 13th August from bortle 4 skies of Jhelum near the bank of river Jhelum. The background stars have been stacked with a total integration of 12 minutes untracked frames. The greenish color you see in the tails of the meteors is due to ionization of oxygen molecules as the meteor enters our atmosphere. You can also notice the direction of all the meteors is away from the radiant which was about 10-11 o'clock of this frame.
I hope to see and capture such events in the future as well and I wish all clear and clean skies.
Canon EOS 1300D
Canon EF 50mm f 1.8 lens
The background stars are a stack of 12 minutes total with each frame 5 seconds, ISO 3200, f/2.8, 50mm untracked
The meteor shots are blended together into the stacked frame with the help of PS.