Perseid with persistent trail

[lukebl]

Whilst trawling through my images from last night, I found this fine Perseid which left a trail which lasted several minutes. It appeared at around 00:10 UT.

Here's a crop from each of the subsequent images, showing that trail was still visible after at least four minutes. I particularly like the one immediately after the meteor appeared. Each image was 30 seconds, captured with a Canon 700d, ISO 1600, 8mm Samyang at f3.5

And here's an animation

 

Edited August 15, 2020 by lukebl

[theropod]

A tear slowly slid down his cheek.

The holy grail for meteor hunters.

This one is not worthy.

[discardedastro]

Wow - that's quite a beautiful shot.

Can I ask what the acquisition parameters/equipment were?

[festoon]

A meteor contrail that lasted 5 minutes!!!! Thats amazing. Was this 23:10 UK time?

Edited August 13, 2020 by festoon

[theropod]

1 minute ago, festoon said:

A meteor contrail that lasted 5 minutes!!!! Thats amazing

Isn’t there more to some of these trains than mere water vapor? The ash from burning the solids surely must be a part of what persists/lingers. Think of smoke from a plasma metal cutting tool. Even small amounts of metals or stone would contribute to such a train. 

[MarkAR]

Great capture, well done.

[lukebl]

1 hour ago, festoon said:

A meteor contrail that lasted 5 minutes!!!! Thats amazing. Was this 23:10 UK time?

No. 01:10 British Summer Time!

1 hour ago, discardedastro said:

Wow - that's quite a beautiful shot.

Can I ask what the acquisition parameters/equipment were?

Thanks! Canon 700d DSLR, 8mm Samyang fisheye, f/3.5 30 second exposures, ISO 1600

[Davey-T]

Super catch Luke, checked mine from that time and just out of FOV using Samyang 14mm centred on Summer Triangle, just fate I guess 😂

Dave

[tooth_dr]

1 hour ago, lukebl said:

No. 01:10 British Summer Time!

Fabulous capture and presentation. Was this on the 12th or 13th?

[lukebl]

8 minutes ago, tooth_dr said:

Fabulous capture and presentation. Was this on the 12th or 13th?

Thanks! It was this morning, 13th.

[tooth_dr]

1 minute ago, lukebl said:

Thanks! It was this morning, 13th.

Cheers. I picked up something yesterday at 1:10am that’s why I was wondering!