Half Dome aglow

Abhijit Patil, taken from Yosemite National Park, California

The iconic Half Dome is backlit by the glow of the aurora on the horizon the night of Aug. 11/12, as Perseid meteors streak overhead. The imager used separate Nikon mirrorless and DSLR cameras, one to image the foreground and sky and another to capture the streaks of meteors.