The North and South Taurid meteor showers aren't the most prolific meteor showers of the year, but the meteors which do show up can include bright fireballs. Five days ago I passed on the tip that the Taurid shower was expected to be more active than usual this year, and I put a camera out one night to see for myself. Although I missed the forecasted peak night for the shower, I did catch this one very long, bright meteor within view of my 14mm lens. It's passing through Orion in this photo, and Taurus is just above. I caught another bright meteor in the lower left corner of the frame a short while later, and that appears to be an early meteor from the overlapping Leonid shower underway, peaking Sunday night/Monday morning.
Taurid Meteor Shower
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Beautiful and neat capture!
sweet
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i liked it ^^
That's excellent +Jeff Sullivan
Amazing! I have never seen such a beautiful scenery! Thanks very much!
that's super
wow…..
keren…
Marvelous
Thanks for sharing this shoot
I love the little part of the tree in the corner.
the camera has become a really important part in the life ;
the sky with the glowing stars ++++the meteors it 's really very beautiful….
nice
What a beautiful sight!! +Jeff Sullivan
I just wondering whether this is true.
THAT IS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT KOOL
very veryy beautiful
Wow! beautiful!!! worth to be shared 🙂 May I!
amazing!
Ditto the above!
Wow ! great
Make a vow…
awesm
You allow my heart to sing with joy. Your gift to me is beyond price
its amazing
fantacy
This is a Beautiful shot!!
it's really beautiful….
can you share the technique you capture it?
thank u Jeff …love+love
WOW!!!
It's actually quite easy to capture meteors in photos +James Black and +Arihant Jain. I use an external timer (intervalometer) to capture hundreds of 30 second exposures over the course of several hours, as described in my blog entry "Producing Milky Way Images":
http://activesole.blogspot.com/search?q=Milky+Way
So I use a lens with a very wide focal length to see a lot of the sky, and the camera's shutter is open most of the night, so many of the meteors are captured in photos. I can even put those hundreds of photos together to make time-lapse movies from them:
Perseid Meteor Shower
http://youtu.be/vroLnrBhbmk?hd=1
(Best viewed 720p quality, full screen.)
Perfect! Seen only once under Moscow
+Jeff Sullivan thanks…
but with such long exposures how come the movement of stars is not seen? coz when i tried, say with 25 seconds exposure, i saw tiny star trails in the photographs.
Good question +Arihant Jain, the apparent movement is reduced by using an ultra-wide lens. I used a 14mm lens in this case, but I also use a 16mm lens with very little apparent movement in the stars in 30 seconds. My 24mm lens shows more movement, but it's f/1.4, so the equivalent exposure I'd have at 30 seconds at f/2.8 I can get with 15 seconds at f/2, or on a crop sensor camera I sometimes go all the way wide open at f/1.4.
wow!u did a good shot!beautiful
thanks +Jeff Sullivan for sharing this… 🙂