Malcolm Park
Last night I captured an early Persied when, just as it was getting dark (Astro-dusk ends at 10:14 here and this capture was at 10:06pm) a bright fireball flashed over the lake. My camera was pointing in the right spot! It was hot and muggy even after the sun went down, with lots of haze on the horizon but this Perseid was so bright it didn't matter. It has lovely colours from blue at the start, to green, pale yellow and then red before it glows white and ends abruptly. The lake and Milky Way framed this Perseid nicely, with Scorpius on one side and Jupiter and Saturn on the other. Nikon D810a 14mm f/2.8 iso 3200 1x30s Star Adventurer tracker.
The object that appears to move back and forth is Pluto. Two images were taken 24 hours apart, overlaid and blinked to show how far Pluto moves in 24hrs. Above and to the left is probably an Asteroid in one of the frames.
The blue arrow points at Pluto. It shows in the bright image (which I took) but not in the dark image (from the Digitized sky survey) bw=ecause the DSS image was taken long before Pluto got to this position.
