Perseids Meteor Shower 2021 - this Wed. & Thur. nights

[Fenixgoon]

Woah nice!

Maybe it's my Camera (probably considered old by today's standards, it's a Nikon D7000) but if I put ISO to 1000 my pictures basically look like they were printed on a dot matrix printer lol.

i have a d7100, so i'm not rolling a $10k pro body or anything.

there was a loooot of lightroom work to get that to pop

 

[Brainonska511]

These new fixtures have a number of LEDs and a sizable diffuser that casts a much wider area with light. The situation with my neighbor is bad because the actual light is across the street and the entire side of his house and yard are lit up in the evenings.

You're correct...they should dim them....but that would require more work and they just installed them across the city in 2019.

Sounds like they just installed shitty LEDs. I think a lot of municipalities just blindly install without understanding what they are doing. They just see a 1:1 replacement of an existing light, without realizing that they can actually improve the outdoor nighttime environment by integrating some thought before committing to the switch. If I recall, I believe Tucson has done a pretty good job with their streetlights, but it's probably aided by the number of people there that appreciate the night sky.

I'm guessing that many other areas, there is a general public (at least the kind to complain to local governments) that scream when it's too dark or there aren't enough streetlights.

 

[Spacehead]

ISO 1000, 12mm, f/4, 1min exposure (+ a lot of lightroom)
View attachment 48683

Is that the Andromeda galaxy just below center?

I went out again Thursday night & saw 3. One really nice one left a long streak in the sky, the other 2 were pretty average. Same conditions as the night before... just a hole in the overcast pretty much straight up. I was only out about half hour-45mins.
Went out tonight. There was some clear areas of sky but it had stormed earlier & there was at least a light show to the North with some pretty good in-cloud lightning going on. No meteors to be seen though & it completely clouded over in about half an hour or so.

"The night of Aug. 11-12 showed only a few dim meteors that traced back to Perseus," reports John Ashley of Marion, Montana.

All Sky Fireball Network
On Aug 11 2021, the network reported 114 fireballs.
(61 Perseids, 53 sporadics)

Friday the 13th is a lucky day for sky watchers. The annual Perseid meteor shower is peaking as Earth passes through a stream of debris from Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Last night, international observers counted as many as 65 meteors per hour, while NASA all-sky cameras recorded 84 Perseid fireballs over the USA.

All Sky Fireball Network
On Aug 12 2021, the network reported 146 fireballs.
(84 Perseids, 61 sporadics, 1 southern iota Aquarid)

 

[IronWing]

Smoke cleared for a bit last night and I saw two long streakers.