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Two Perseids Amid Colorful Aurora Curtains (2024).jpg
Two Perseid meteors streak away from the radiant point in Perseus amid a superb Kp6 to 7 display of Northern Lights on August 11-12, 2024, here at the 70 Mile Butte trailhead in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, near Val Marie. This was in the declining minutes of a bright sub-storm outburst, here looking north.
The Big Dipper is at far left, distorted by the wide-angle lens, with Polaris above the meteors. Cassiopiea is at centre; Andromeda is at right.
This is a blend of two frames taken only 8 seconds apart, from a 245-frame rapid-cadence time-lapse, set for the aurora and its fast pulsating motion. Each exposure was only 2 seconds with a 1-second interval, so I was lucky to catch the meteors in their entirety on the frames. One frame contributes the ground, sky and brightest meteor; the second later frame contributes just the fainter meteor.
This was with the Venus Optics/Laowa 10mm Z lens wide open at f/2.8 on the Nikon Z6III at ISO 6400. Adobe DeNoise AI applied.
The Big Dipper is at far left, distorted by the wide-angle lens, with Polaris above the meteors. Cassiopiea is at centre; Andromeda is at right.
This is a blend of two frames taken only 8 seconds apart, from a 245-frame rapid-cadence time-lapse, set for the aurora and its fast pulsating motion. Each exposure was only 2 seconds with a 1-second interval, so I was lucky to catch the meteors in their entirety on the frames. One frame contributes the ground, sky and brightest meteor; the second later frame contributes just the fainter meteor.
This was with the Venus Optics/Laowa 10mm Z lens wide open at f/2.8 on the Nikon Z6III at ISO 6400. Adobe DeNoise AI applied.
