Meteor Shower Images

Once you have recorded a bigger number of meteors belonging to one shower it is possible to create nice shower images. All meteors in the picture above appearead in the summer triangle on August 09/10, 12/13 and 13/14, 1994. They were recorded with MOVIE during our annual summer camp in Krampfer (Germany). The meteor brightness varied between - 1 and +3 mag. All Perseids appear in parallel since the recorded sky area was approximately 90 degrees away from the radiant.

A completely different picture will be obtained if you record meteors near the radiant. On April 22/23, 1995, we observed the maximum of the Lyrids. We changed the field of view of the video system two times during the course of the night, so we could record meteors on both sides of the radiant. The resulting shower image contains a much larger portion of the sky (approximately 120°x60°), it reaches from Bootes in the lower right to Cygnus in the upper left corner.