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Stuart Cornell

How to photograph meteors and meteor showers

How to photograph meteors and meteor showers - a meteor streaks across the night sky above a beach resort.

Catch the Perseid meteor shower at its peak tonight, Aug. 12, 2024.

Meteors and meteor showers are some of the most exciting events you can see in the night sky, but they can be incredibly tricky to photograph, especially without prior planning. In former years you would have needed to spend a small fortune on rolls of film and developing costs just to capture one decent image, and even then, it would have been difficult to know exactly where to point your camera in order to get a high-quality shot in such a fleeting amount of time. 

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