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We made a wish that our readers would send in their images of the Perseid Meteor Shower, and it came true! Despite a full Moon and clouds scattered around the world, we heard from many of you that you saw -- and successfully imaged -- the 2011 Perseids. Many of you took advantage of
Universe Today's new Flickr group
, an easy way to have readers share their astrophotos with us. Above is a colorful image of a Perseid streaking through the sky by Nahum Mendez Chazarra, in Rojales, Spain.
Below, see an image take from up above the world so high: astronaut Ron Garan on board the International Space Station captured his view looking down at a Perseid streaking through sky!
[caption id="attachment_88155" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="'What a shooting star looks like from space," wrote ISS astronaut Ron Garan on Twitter. Click for larger version"]
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[caption id="attachment_88161" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Faint meteor. Credit: Andrei Juravle, Timisoara, Romania. Click for larger version on Flickr"]
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This is another Flickr submission, from Andrei Juravle, Timisoara, Romania. Click to see this image and more from Andrei.
[caption id="attachment_88185" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="A Chicago meteor! Taken near downtown Chicago under a nearly full moon on August 12th 2011. Credit: Janet Branson. Click through for Flickr version. "]
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Impressive! This image was taken in the light-filled skies of Chicago, Illinois by Janet Branson.
Paul Miller from San Diego, California took the following two very nice images from Mt. Laguna:
[caption id="attachment_88158" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Bright Perseid. Credit: Paul MIller, San Diego, California. "]
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[caption id="attachment_88159" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="A Perseid meteor and much more! Credit: Paul MIller, San Diego, California"]
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[caption id="attachment_88165" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="A Perseid meteor is caught on camera by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope's mounted low-light Cloudcam before dawn on the morning of August 12, 2011. Still frame cropped and edited by J. Major"]
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Here's one from our own Jason Major -- kind of! He found the Perseid streaking through the sky on footage from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope's mounted low-light Cloudcam, and created this image.
[caption id="attachment_88160" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="First meteor! Credit: Leonard Ellul Mercer, Malta, EU"]
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How's this for beginniner luck?! "Last night I captured my first ever Perseid image with Andromeda on its upper left," said Leonard Ellul Mercer from Malta. "This is the first time I tried imaging meteors. Was just lucky even though there was a bright full moon overhead."
Keep imaging, Leonard -- nice shot!
[caption id="attachment_88157" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Meteor, or something else? Credit: Michaela Knott. "]
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"I took this on August 12, 2011 I'm not sure what it is," wrote in Michaela Knott, "but I know it's not a plane (which is what most of what shows up in my time lapse ends up being). This year I think I only saw 2 dozen or so meteors over two nights I went out looking."
Shot with a Nikon D60, 28mm lens f2.8 10 sec exposure at the Frosty Drew Observatory in Charlestown RI, USA. "It was taken @ 9:42 EST, still pretty early in the evening," Michaela said.
[caption id="attachment_88162" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Timelapse, Perseids and stars on August 12, 2011.Credit: David Parmet. Click to see this image and more on Flickr. "]
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