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| Milky Way |
What a great morning! We were at the Stone Barn property of Allens Pond Audubon Sanctuary in Dartmouth, Massachusetts to observe and photograph the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower. It was a cool, perfectly clear night, the stars were sparkling and there was a bright Milky Way present. I set up my cameras, one with a 14 mm wide-angle lens and the other with a 24 mm wide-angle lens, and program the cameras to do interval shooting. I allowed two seconds in between frames. While I was sitting down and observing the sky, a fireball flew overhead from the Northeast to the Southwest, and persisted for at least 10 to 15 seconds. It was the brightest and longest lasting meteor that I have seen. The sight of it showed how wonderful the universe is and how we are may be not as significant as we feel we are. Anyway, I captured a number of other meteors. We photographed until the waning gibbous moon lit up the sky and started hiding the stars.
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| "The Fireball" |
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| Meteor in the Milky Way |
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| Star trail With Meteor |
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| Meteor over the Stone Barn |
We're going again tomorrow morning starting at 2 AM to catch not only hopefully, the meteors, but also most beautiful milky way.
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