Imaging the Perseid meteor shower

Clear skies may produce plenty of bright Perseid trails, but capturing one on camera isn’t easy. This month we’re looking at how to record meteor trails using a high frame rate camera, the sort normally used to image planets.

These cameras have good sensitivity and the option to take really short exposures. However, we’re ignoring this and extending their capability to record wide-angle shots of the stars using longer than normal exposures, like we would do with a DSLR.

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