Perseid Meteor Shower and the Milky Way, 2023

Meteor Shower

Our magnificent galaxy the Milky Way and Perseids meteors as photographed from my garden on Friday night, early Saturday morning 11 August 2023. I used my Nikon D810A and AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED on a Star Adventurer. 12 x 150s ISO 800 at 19mm f/2.8

Tech Card

Date / Location

12th August 2023, Warwickshire, GMT+0, United Kingdom, TEMP: 16C, Bortle Class 4 ~SGM: 21.20 mag./arc sec2

Equipment

Camera: Nikon D810A

Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED

Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer

Image Quality

14 bit RAW (NEF)

Exposure time per image / number of composites and sensitivity

150s (ISO 800 f/2.8 19mm)

Software

PixInsight 1.8 Core

Photoshop

DEEP SKY

Deep Sky photographs

STARSCAPE

Starscape photographs

SOLAR SYSTEM

Solar system photographs

EVENTS

Various astronomical events photographs