Perseid Meteor Shower

A photo composite of multiple exposures. From the photographer: “The 2023 Perseid meteor shower as seen above famous Dachstein Mountains and – one day after the peak – from “Edelweißspitze” at 2572 m altitude at the Grossglockner High Alpine Road in Austria.

I had no great expectations when looking through the 2000 images I shot with my Sony A7s (ISO 3200, 10 s, f2.0) at 14 mm facing the famous Dachstein Glacier in the Austrian Alps. There were some thunderstorms around, a lot of clouds and the mountain massif blocked a part of the sky. I was all the more pleased that nevertheless more than 30 meteors appeared between the clouds and I could create the collage with metors turned to the radiant.

The picture shows the night sky around 1 o’clock with the Andromeda galaxy on the upper right and some faint greenish airglow. It is the single image from the time-lapse sequence with the fewest clouds I could find. The foreground is also from the time-lapse – it is an image where lightning from a distant thunderstorm has lit up the landscape. The meteor streaks were isolated, layered in Photoshop and rotated property – same for the second picture shot two ay after the Peak near to my accommodation. Check the Video with several timelapses from the days around the peak.”