The Perseids

I took about a billion photos of the sky last night trying to get a shot of a meteor. You can see one in this photo in the upper right-hand side. There’s also a small line from a satellite in the lower left-hand side right above the tree line. I saw one really big, bright meteor but of course my camera was pointed to a different section of the sky.

I could have gotten a better picture, I’m sure, but I was on the side of a highway at night by myself with a cell phone that was going dead and I just didn’t feel like getting murdered.

What was also cool was that while I scanned through the photos on my computer today trying to spot any meteors, I could actually see the world turn based on the movement of the milky way in the frame. :)

Here’s another shot with a meteor:

And this one has no meteor but I just liked the weird effect that came from simply having a dirty lens. :)

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