2005 Perseid Meteor Gallery
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Summary: By almost all accounts, the 2005 Perseid meteor shower was subdued. Sky watchers saw fewer meteors than expected, and the ones they did see were mostly faint. Even so, some very nice Perseids were photographed--see below.

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  Photographer, Location Images Comments

Chris Peterson,
Guffey, Colorado
Aug. 12
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This is a composite image of 130 Perseid meteors collected by my video all-sky camera over three evenings, August 10-12. The shower radiant is clealy visible in the eastern sky. Several large fireballs with terminal explosions are also seen.

Brian Hockenstein,
in a warming cabin on Brandywine Mt. in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Aug. 13
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This photo, taken with a Nikon 2020 on 400asa Fuji print film, is a composite of 2 images: one with the meteor (10 sec exposure) and one with the foreground and stars (15 minutes). This was my first shot of the night and I got so excited when I saw this meteor, I closed the shutter too quickly, not allowing time for the forground and stars I desired, thus the neccesity to combine 2 shots. You can see the glow of Whistler Village in the bottom right, as well as several red lights that belong to various grooming machines and chairlift stations on the number one ski resort in the world.

Heiko Rodde,
25 km north of Zuerich, Switzerland
Aug. 12
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Many very bright and colorful meteors were visible between 10:00pm and 01:00am. EOS 20 D - 20/2.8 - 1600 asa - 30 sec

Pete Lawrence,
Sir Patrick Moore's garden in Selsey, West Sussex, UK.
Aug. 11
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A reasonably clear evening, interrupted by fast moving cloud from time to time, presented a rather subdued build up to the Perseid maximum for 2005. Not many bright Perseids but a fair number sighted around the mag. 2-4 range.

Mark Parrish,
Farthings, Selsey, UK
Aug. 12
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As this Perseid meteor streaks below Deneb and the North American Nebula in Cygnus, its colour changes from red to green. The colour effect is caused by burning oxygen. The green colour is seen in the higher atmosphere, turning red as it approaches lower altitudes. Although the rates were a little disappointing and many meteors were low magnitude, we were treated to a few spectacular trails during an enjoyable meteor watch in the company of Sir Patrick Moore in his garden here in Selsey.

Koen Miskotte,
Ermelo, the Netherlands
Aug 12
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After a week of very bad weather, we had some clear spells in the evening of 11 august. During 3 hours I counted ~100 meteors. This Perseid of -3 I captured with a Canon 10D in combination of a 2.8/15 mm fish eye. A second Perseid is visible just above the trees in the middle of this picture.

Kris Koenig,
Kiwanis Chico Community Observatory, Chico, CA
Aug. 12
#1

A Perseid streaks past Andromeda! Canon 20Da w/ Canon 14mm f/3.5 / 800 ISO / 30 sec.

Peter Atanackov, Simon Krulec,
Slovenia, Mount Pohorje, Trije Kralji
Aug. 11
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Photo details: Canon eos 300D, ISO 1600, 41s exposure, 21mm, f/3.5

NOTE: This meteor is not a Perseid because it did not emerge from the constellation Perseus--but it sure was pretty!

Ian Sharp,
Ham, Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Aug. 11
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Bright flaring Perseid meteor streaks through Auriga. Taken with Canon 300D and 15mm Sigma wide-angle lens at f/3.5. 30 second exposure at ISO1600. Just about to pack up Perseid watch as dawn approached.

Jim Tegerdine,
Marysville, WA USA
Aug. 07
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A bright Perseid meteor streaks below Mars in the early morning hours of August 6 (left), and then at almost the exact same time and place on August 7 (right)!!! Click here to see both nights side by side.

Frantisek Baxa,
Bratislava - Devin, Slovakia
Aug. 11-12
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Nikon D70, Peleng 8mm f/3.5, 0:14 UT, ISO 1600, 30 sec.

Achim Schaller,
Schauinsland Mountain (elevation 1240m above sea level), Black Forest (Germany)
Aug. 10
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There were some really bright Perseids to see last night at our clubs observatory on Schauinsland mountain. Unfortunately the humidity was horrible, we had to blow dry our telescopes every 15 minutes. The Perseid captured just shined through the fogged over camera lens. Photo details: Canon digital Rebel (modified) DSLR, ISO 1600, exposure time 60s, Tokina 12mm lens at f4 fog over

Pierre Martin,
Arnprior, Ontario, Canada
Aug. 08
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This is a photo taken on August 8, 2005 of a green Perseid meteor scooting by in Ursa Major. A fainter sporadic meteor also appeared in the bowl of the dipper. This was a one minute exposure taken with a Canon 300D, a 35mm F2 lens and with the ISO set to 400.

Koen Miskotte,
Ermelo, the Netherlands
Aug. 02
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Picture of a Perseid of magnitude -2. In the night of 2/3 august I did some visual and photographic observations on the Perseids. I counted 92 meteors (4.30 hours effective). I had a Canon 10D with a timer controller mounted on a Vixen Photoguider. Used lens: Canon ef 2.8/15 mm fish eye. Exposure time 90 seconds, 800 iso, 3.2/15 mm.


more images: from Vince Varnas at the Stonehenge Memorial near Goldendale, Washington; from Bryan Murahashi in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California; from Doug Murray of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; from Dominique Dierick of Ghent, Belgium; from Dan Sobczak of Fountain Hills, Arizona; from Tim Printy of Manchester, NH;

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