Fantastic Perseids Shower Time-Lapse Video

[wraithfodder]

For all of us who couldn't see it...

 

Perseid Meteor Shower Failure from ph dee on Vimeo.

Comments

[bramble-rose.livejournal.com]

Wow!! that was pretty awesome!! While I have seen some cool meteors, I've never had that kind of luck watching a meteor shower; we live too close to Austin and get too much light pollution ;(
Just once I'd like to be out in the boonies for something like that!

[sherry57.livejournal.com]

Wow this is fantastic. I live in Paris so obviously star gazing is an absolute minimum activity.
When in Scotland last week, my daughter Alex, took great joy in seeing a lot of stars. It's still not ideal near Glasgow, but better than Paris. Alex loves planes, stars and spends a lot of time looking at or reading about both.
Thanks for posting this video - thanks from Alex too.

[pisces227.livejournal.com]

WOW! I was so looking forward to seeing the shower but it was a bit cloudy and I didn't see anything.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm in the suburbs so light pollution is a hassle, plus we had clouds, as usual. I'd love to be out in the California/Nevada desert where the night skies were soooo beautiful...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ah, join the club!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. When I tripped over it, I thought, gotta embed and share as it's so pretty.

[cannellfan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was overcast on the primo days here, too, so we missed seeing anything worthwhile. Although, my brother-in-law, who lives about 15 miles outside of Lincoln on an acreage, apparently saw some some good stuff around 2:00 a.m. one morning.

That video is definitely impressive -- even if the streaking lights were only planes, the time-lapse images of the clear night sky were still gorgeous!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I'm collecting more links and may post mid-week. There's some nice stuff out there but am checking out foreign papers for any galleries.