This is a star trails photo captured during the Perseid meteor shower. Last year the dark skies made the stars too bright to see meteors in images processed to show star trails. For the 2014 Perseids, the bright moon will cause fewer stars and meteors to be seen, but the few Perseid fireballs bright enough to show up will be visible in a less busy sky.
+Universe Today has a nice write-up on this year's viewing:
When Good Meteor Showers Go Bad: Prospects for the 2014 Perseids
http://www.universetoday.com/113455/when-good-meteor-showers-go-bad-prospects-for-the-2014-perseids/
#perseidmeteorshower #science #astronomy #2014
Star trails photo captured during the Perseid meteor shower. The dark skies made the stars too bright to see meteors in images processed to create star trails last year. This year the bright moon will cause fewer stars and meteors to be seen, but the few Perseid fireballs bright enough to show up will be visible in a less busy sky.
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Spectacular
Pretty cool.
Interesting.
So cool! pretty amazing to see!
how long of an exposure is this?
Kool!
esna imagen espectacular gracias amigo
Ich liebe diese Lichterspirale mit einem wunderschönen Baum !- so toll
Nice work.
Magnificent work ! +Jeff Sullivan
Absolutely Amazing work Jeff!
looks like a tunnel or the eye of a hurricane!
Did u take that over a period of time in one night
+Zach Spangler It's 130 exposures covering roughly 65 minutes.
Great!!
wspaniałe ujęcie dzięki
alleluia!
+Jen Pounds Yes, I left my camera shooting for roughly 5 hours, and selected 130 images representing 65 minutes to create this star trails image.
Thank you
Wow awesome ,hi Jeff I'll always love ur work!!
aWeSomE..!!!!..grEaT jOb..!!!
Awesome!
Truly AWESOME CAPTURE