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Why Are Meteors More Frequent After Midnight?

Jeff offers landscape and night photography workshops in Death Valley National Park

In short, where you are on earth rotates around to the front of the Earth’s path through space at midnight, so the sky above you collides with more comet dust from then until astronomical twilight starts before dawn, as this article in Bay Nature Magazine, featuring one of my meteor shower photos, explains: Ask the Naturalist: What’s the Best Time and Place to See Meteors?

I’ve met other photographers who seem confused about why I show up until 11 pm to start shooting at midnight, so I’ve also updated one of my tutorial blog posts to include that suggestion: How to Create a Time-lapse Video of a Meteor Shower

Thank you to Bay Nature Institute for licensing my photo for your article!

How to Create a Timelapse Video of a Meteor Shower

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Jeff Sullivan

Jeff Sullivan leads landscape photography workshops in national parks and public lands throughout California and the American West.

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