Perseids 2021
A bright Perseid meteor streaks through the sky above a clear lake in Fulton County, Illinois. This 25-second-long shot was taken during the 2018 Perseid meteor shower.
The town of Mountain Mesa, California, appears almost under siege as meteors rain down during the 2013 Perseid meteor shower. This stunning 30-second image was captured just after midnight on Aug. 13, 2013, from Hanning Flat, facing the southern end of the Milky Way.
This composite image fuses a fireball in the skies above Maine’s Popham Beach State Park with the shoreline of Boulder Beach in Acadia National Park. The images were captured a week apart during the 2019 Perseids; the photographer later combined and edited the final image using Lightroom and Photoshop.
Doubling Point Lighthouse stands vigil on Maine’s Kennebec River beneath a Perseid fireball in 2020. The photographer combined eight stacked shots of the Milky way (15 seconds each) with a 15-second exposure of the meteor and a four-second foreground image to create this tranquil scene.
