Eta-Aquarids and Planets

A photo composite of multiple exposures. From the photographer: “The annual meteor shower Eta-Aquarids is just in progress and I was lucky to observe the maximum at San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Luckily, the weather is very favorable and Moon doesn’t shine when radiant rises, so I took the chance to capture this composite image. Foreground was taken on May 3rd while meteors were taken by time-lapse wide-angle photography for 11 days (from 28 April to 8 May). The view of the shower caused by Halley’s comet was very nicely supplemented by a wonderful planetary parade in the Zodiacal Light. Move the slider on image to show/hide labels.”

Technical details: Foreground was captured on Canon Ra, Samyang 24mm, f2.8, ISO 10000, a panorama of single 15s exposures from a tripod. Meteors were taken on 2 cameras Canon 6D (modified) and 12mm, f2.8, ISO 8000. Panorama contains 84 meteors in total.

I would like to acknowledge Josef Kujal of the Astronomy Society of Hradec Králové for his deep support of the meteors photography.