My Photo Guides

Why Are Meteors More Frequent After midnight? This article in Bay Nature Magazine, featuring one of my meteor shower photos, tells you why: Ask the Naturalist: What’s the Best Time and Place to See Meteors? https://baynature.org/articles/ask-the-naturalist-whats-the-best-time-and-place-to-see-meteors/ I've met other photographers who seem confused about why I show up until 11 pm to start shooting at midnight, so I've also updated one of my tutorial blog posts to include that suggestion: How to Create a Time-lapse Video of a Meteor Shower http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/08/create-timelapse-video-of-meteor-shower.html Thank you to BayNatureInstitute for licensing my photo for your article! #astrophotography   #meteorshower   #nightphotography   #timelapsephotography

Meteors with Venus, Jupiter & Mars in Zodiacal Light I captured Venus, Jupiter and Mars rising in zodiacal light during the Orionid meteor shower this morning.  See my new blog post for both a photo and a time-lapse video:  http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2015/10/22/meteors-with-venus-jupiter-mars-in-zodiacal-light/ #orionids   #meteorshower   #Canon   #astrophotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight! See my blog post for details and more examples: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2015/10/20/orionid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight/   #Orionids   #meteorshower   #astronomy   #astrophotography   #nightphotography

Four Nights of Perseid Meteors (time-lapse video) New blog post, including my new video of this year's Perseid coverage: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/08/perseid-meteor-shower-2015.html #perseid   #meteorshower   #timelapse   #landscapephotography   www.MyPhotoGuides.com

Perseid Meteor Shower 2015 This is a composite showing a few of the meteors I found in a southwest-facing sequence of images covering over 3 hours in the Mojave Desert. It takes a while to separate out the individual meteors, so I'll come back to the rest of them as time permits.   #science   #astronomy   #perseids   #meteorshower  #2015 www.MyPhotoGuides.com

Perseid Meteor Shower 2015 A time-lapse movie covering nearly 4 hours of the peak of the Perseid meteor shower last night, in California's Mojave Desert. #Perseids #meteorshower #astronomy www.myPhotoGuides.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHqKgPX7mSU&feature=autoshare

Perseid Meteor Shower This Week Tomorrow night, August 12-13, will be your best night to see Perseid meteors this year:  http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/08/2015-perseid-meteor-shower-photograph.html Who's going out to look?  I'm going back out tonight. #science   #Perseid   #meteorshower   #astronomy   www.MyPhotoGuides.com

Perseid Meteor Shower 2010-2012 The annual Perseid meteor shower is considered to be active from July 13th to August 26th, peaking around the night of August 12-13.  The weather and moon phase don't always cooperate to offer great viewing conditions, so it can take time to accumulate enough photos to put together a long time-lapse video.   In 2014 I assembled time-lapse clips from the previous recent years to set to this song "While the Sun Was Sleeping" by Life Audience. #perseid   #meteorshower   #astronomy   #science   #astrophotography   #nightphotography   #timelapse   www.MyPhotoGuides.com Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan 2014 Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight! In honor of the 2014 Perseid Meteor shower peaking tonight, I offer you time-lapse clips from the 2010-2012 Perseids in the first 1:49 of this video.  All of the footage in it was compiled during my travels in recent years.  I hope that you enjoy it! You can see more of my time-lapse videos on my YouTu...

Annual Perseid Meteor Shower Coming Aug 11-14 As I mentioned with my time-lapse video share yesterday, the earth passes through the comet debris that causes the Perseid meteor shower for a few weeks, but the activity peaks around the night of August 12-13.  The meteor activity is high for a while on either side of the peak so it can be productive to look in the August 11-14 timeframe. #astronomy   #astrophotography   #Perseid   #meteorshower   www.MyPhotoGuides.com Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Perseid Meteor Shower Composite, 2013 I'm still working on my images from the Camelopardalid meteor shower last night.  So in the meantime to kill some time while last night's images process, I produced this composite image showing 40 meteors from 4 hours of the Perseid meteor shower early in the morning of August 12, 2013. These meteors appear in my time-lapse video of the 2013 Perseid Meteor shower on YouTube: Perseid Meteor Shower 2013 Here's the rest of my Astrophotography ...

Bright Green Geminid Meteor Over Topaz Lake This was captured during the Geminid meteor shower last night.  The Geminid meteor shower produces a lot of meteors, but not as many fireballs as the Perseid meteor shower.  This is a particularly bright one. #Geminids #meteorshower #science #astronomy #breakingnews #sciencesunday #scienceeveryday   #starrynights   #nightphotography   #astrophotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Orionid Meteor Shower Underway, Peaks October 20-21 If you'd like to see some shooting stars, you'll have an excellent chance on the next few nights as the Orionid meteor shower increases in intensity, peaking on the night of October 20-21.  Orionid meteors are created from the dust left behind from Halley's Comet as it orbits the sun.  They meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, but they appear to radiate out from the constellation Orion, which rises to the east around 11-11:30 local time. There's a possible minor peak in the shower reported on October 17-18 as well, so I'll go out tonight in a couple of hours when Orion has cleared the horizon, and see if I can see any activity. I created this image tonight from a sequence of a few hundred photos I captured on the night of October 20-21, 2012.  The constellation Orion rose above the horizon near the lower left corner of this 14 mm view, and it traveled to the upper right corner before dawn arrived.  I created a t...

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks in 10 Days! It gets stronger every night as the peak approaches; look to the northeast.  The moon sets just after midnight tonight if you want to check its activity tonight under optimal viewing conditions.  Here's a time-lapse video I made from several nights shooting the Perseid meteor shower last year:  http://youtu.be/vTXA5gYWtXs?list=PL6012D9822C1BA1E7 #Perseid   #perseidmeteorshower  #2014 www.MyPhotoGuides.com Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Perseid Meteor Shower Composite, 2013 I'm still working on my images from the Camelopardalid meteor shower last night.  So in the meantime to kill some time while last night's images process, I produced this composite image showing 40 meteors from 4 hours of the Perseid meteor shower early in the morning of August 12, 2013. These meteors appear in my time-lapse video of the 2013 Perseid Meteor shower on YouTube: Perseid Meteor Shower 2013 Here's the rest of my Astrophotography album on G+ so fa...