Photographing Perseid meteors. The radiant of the meteor
shower appears to come from the constellation Perseus in the sky. And it stands
high in the sky from midnight when the peak of the shower is supposed to occur.
My colleague and I went out to the east coast with as little light pollution as
possible and this year without any moon to interfere so the conditions were
nice. It was not astronomically dark but good enough to see even faint meteors
and the Milky Way was clearly visible to the south. I chose to photograph
mostly to the east and south and got a couple of nice pictures with the Milky
Way. I set the camera to rolling exposures, but then you have to hope that some
bright meteor comes along. I also photographed with a macro/wide angle lens and
got most of the meteors. In some cases I used UV light so that some objects
fluoresced in different beautiful colors. Very dry on the rock outcrops and
previous water puddles had dried out of masses and algae etc. dried on the edge
which fluoresced masses in UV, mostly in blue.
There were several nice pictures, one that was published as
NASA's picture of the day, and a nice night on the coast.
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