(meteorobs) Perseids photos on August 12/13 2015

[Pierre Martin]

Here’s the images that I took during the Perseids peak night at Balsam Provincial Park:


1) Composite image of 110 Perseids captured, using a Canon 5D at ISO1600, 20 seconds exposures and a Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens (set at f/2.2). The camera was aimed towards the north and tracked this part of the sky all night.  The brightest is a -4 Perseid.  This meteor looks unusual because the camera shutter opened halfway through the meteor’s motion (capturing both the bright luminous phase as well as the glowing blue-green train that persisted for several seconds after it vanished).  There is also a very faint greenish aurora above the trees mixed with thin clouds in the distance.

https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-CvrvCsQ/A


2) Composite image of 99 Perseids captured, using a Canon 6D at ISO1600, 30 seconds exposures and a Sigma Art-Series 35mm f/1.4 lens (set at f/2.2).  A single 2.5 minutes exposure at ISO800, f/4 was done for the star field.  The camera was aimed in the east towards the radiant and tracked the same part of the sky all night.  The Great Andromeda Galaxy is visible to the right, M33 to the lower-right and the Double Cluster left of center.  Several near head-on meteors were captured.  Notice also the rather large radiant size (meteors don’t always line up to a precise point).

https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-frGcTb3/A


3) Our road trip:
https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-tZB3t5f/A


4) Our setup for the night (left: Pierre Martin, right: Raymond Dubois, taken by Shane Finnigan)
https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-xKnNxnR/A
https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-gThGKv5/A
https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-wG8Js9X/A

5) Something we found along the way:
https://pmartin.smugmug.com/Astronomy/20150812-Perseids/i-jNDfhdb/A


Clear skies!

Pierre Martin
Ottawa, Ontario