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Joel Weatherly
Edmonton, Aberta, Canada
04/21/2020
11:33 pm

Equipment Details:

Canon 5DS and a Sigma 20mm f/1.4 lens mounted on an iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Post-processing Details:

Edited using Affinity Photo with adjustments to clarity, contrast, colour balance, and brightness.

Image Details:

The skies were busy last night. The Lyrids meteor shower peaked as Earth passed through a trail of debris left behind by comet Thatcher. Some of this debris entered Earth's atmosphere and burned as vibrantly coloured meteors. Adding some extra green to the scene was a brief auroral show sparked by the leftovers of a coronal mass ejection, a burst of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun. I will upload additional photos.

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