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Through a combination of luck and careful selection of the 800 sub exposures that went into this photograph, I was able to capture meteors from the 2021 Perseid shower that aligned almost perfectly with the Milky Way in the background.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 08.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2022
Photo Location: Amargosa Valley, Nevada, United States of America
Camera: [notAvailable]
Copyright: © Nathan Myhrvold