Meteor shower - Perseids

 Posted: Aug 14th, 2025
Technical Info
Telescope/Lens: Samyang 14mm f/2.8
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Mount: неподвижный штатив
Software: Photoshop
Exposure:
1 x 20" ISO/Gain: 1600
 Maloe Tomylovo Samarskaya Obl, Russia
 Aug 13th, 2025
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Taken on the night of August 13 to 14
Resolution: 5472x3648 px
Scale: 28197 KB
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The photo is excellent, but could these possibly be satellites? At least a noticeable portion of them. A common radiant point isn't discernible.
17 Aug, 2025 Reply
Nikolay Gorbunov Replied to Buzzard
Thanks)
I don’t think so, because I shot during the peak and while reviewing the frames, I made sure the trail wasn’t across two frames (if a streak appears on one frame and continues onto the next—it’s most likely a satellite (there were a lot of those…)
+ I’m still not very experienced in shooting meteor showers (2 photos), so in the final image, meteors might turn into lines without a flash, but that’s more due to processing issues
+ I shot on a fixed tripod for 3 hours, and during that time the radiant shifts quite a bit
Overall—I agree that the radiant isn’t as clear as, for example, in a wide-field photo, so you could estimate which tracks might be satellites and remove them just out of curiosity, but what if it was actually a meteor… too little experience)
20 Aug, 2025 Reply
Buzzard Replied to Nikolay Gorbunov
Thank you for the detailed answer! So, not satellites then :) That's a decent number of meteors you managed to capture!
20 Aug, 2025 Reply

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