The Perseids Align
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Last night's Perseids did not disappoint. The background is a 60-second exposure, then I star-aligned and overlaid the meteors from the other exposures. I usually identify meteors by their color, as satellite flashes are almost always white, and the Perseids are easy to spot because they all 'point' to a common origin near the Andromeda galaxy and the distinctive double cluster in Perseus.
Image details
| Telescope: | Sony ILCE-6300 | |
| Length: | 12mm | |
| Aperture: | 6mm | |
| F-stop: | f/2.0 | |
| Sessions: | 1 | |
| Captured: | 2023-08-13 to 2023-08-13 | |
| Lights: | 10 | |
| Exposure: | 60 | |
| Total exposure: | 10 m |