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Jeremy Likness
Monroe, WA
08/12/2023
02:00 am

Equipment Details:

Sony Alpha 6300 mirrorless camera (no mods)
Samyang 12mm f/2 manual focus lens
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer Mini (SAM)

Post-processing Details:

PixInsight for ImageAlignment and synthesis

Image Details:

Last night's Perseids did not disappoint. The background is a 60-second exposure, then I star-aligned and overlaid the meteors from the other exposures. I usually identify meteors by their color, as satellite flashes are almost always white, and the Perseids are easy to spot because they all "point" to a common origin near the Andromeda galaxy and the distinctive double cluster in Perseus.