My 2020 Perseids “shower” - a photo on Flickriver

My 2020 Perseids “shower”

            DESCRIPTION: On August 11th and 12th I spent couple of hours under the stars with aim to capture this year Perseids meteor shower above north - east horizon. I took 268 frames with 20 mm lens and exposure 60 s. Only 18 frames contained meteors and only 2 - 3 were bright. Of course, I removed tons of satellites. In the center of picture is Cassiopea constellation, above is Cygnus (Swan), right down is Andromeda galaxy M31. Perseus radiant is left down. Field of view of this image is approx 79 x 52 arcdeg. No cropped.

GEAR: Nikon Z7 Kolari Full Spectrum + Nikkor 20/1,8, Kolari UV/IR/H+ filter, tracking mount iOptron Sky Guider Pro, dew heater.

ACQUISITION: August 11th and 12th, 2020, Struz, CZ, Exposure 60s, f 1,8, ISO 800, Lights  268 and only 104 have been stacked, Dark 10x, Bias 10x, Flat 20x.  Night, no wind, no clouds.

STACKING AND POST PROCESSING: AstroPixelProcessor (stacking, background neutralization, light pollution removal, calibrate background) ,  Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 (stretching, black and white point settings, star reduction, enhance DSO, noise reduction, contrast setting and meteors frames blending)

Taken on: August 12, 2020

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