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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."
Just gorgeous! If you're looking to get out tonight and see the Perseids for yourself, here our "explainer" from David Dickenson of how to best see this meteor shower!
See more from our astrophotographer friends below:
This video is from John Chumack, who captured 142 Perseids from my backyard in Dayton, Ohio! "My video cameras actually caught many more than I had seen visually," John said via email, expressing a little disapointment in this year's Persieds, "from past years experiences I was expecting more Perseids!"
You can read more about this image by Sergio Garcia Rill and the 'persistent' neon fireball at his website.
Now more:
New images added 8/13/13:
More images added 8/15/13:
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