The Perseids
August shooting stars above the Slovak countryside.
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The Perseids are a meteor shower that peaks around 12–13 August, when Earth passes through dust left behind by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. The grains enter the atmosphere at about 59 km/s and burn up as streaks of light roughly 100 km high.
How the image was made
- Captured
- 13 August 2026
- Exposure
- 1 198 s
- Camera
- Sony α1 II
- Lens
- FE 14mm F1.8 GM
- Focal length
- 14 mm
- ISO / aperture
- ISO 1600 · f/1,8
- Processing
- Adobe Lightroom 9.5.1 (Windows)
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