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A meteoric volley

Xiaofeng Qu, taken at Xiaochaidan Lake, Qinghai Province, China

The Perseid meteors streak across the sky from its radiant in the constellation Perseus appearing in this perspective to be lobbed across the sky. This panorama of 17 stitched 60-second frames was taken with a Nikon DSLR at 14mm lens at f/1.8. Sky frames were captured at ISO 2000 and the foreground at ISO 800.