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I've been wanting to capture a meteor shower radiant for some years now but weather never worked in my favor.
For the landscape photographer purist, please be warned - it's a bit of a Franken-photo. The foreground is a sunset image of my observation field at the Pettigrew State Park campground during the peak. The plan was to wait until dark, and spend a couple hours imaging the radiant. That was until the fog, stray dog, and equipment failures took over. I packed up my gear and pulled out a lawn chair after shining my 2500 lumen light at the dog and scared it off, I suppose. The next night I went out to our local astronomy club observation site to image the radiant again. Not much there for a foreground so I used my image from the night before.
Cosmically speaking, imaging the Perseids the following night is about the same time and place. Heehee. Well at least it's a proof of concept for me until the Geminids. Thanks for looking.
For astronomy buffs, radiant can be seen in the center of the sky. Look for the faint double cluster above the distant house, directly below the Andromeda galaxy, and left of Pleiades.
David
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