A photographer named David from Hood River, Oregon, went out this weekend and photographed the night sky during the Perseid meteor shower. He then turned 400 of the photos into this star trail timelapse that contains several of the shooting stars he saw.
“I’m a 39-year-old Operations Manager from Hood River, Oregon by day and a very amateur photographer by night,” David tells PetaPixel. “I enjoy landscapes and astrophotography and try to take my camera with me whenever I go camping.”
David drove up a forestry road 10 miles east of Mt. Hood in Oregon and set up his Sony a6000 and Rokinon 12mm f/2 lens shooting 15-second exposures at f/2 and ISO 1000. The shutter was being triggered by Sony’s PlayMemories Time-lapse app.

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(Make sure to check the "follow earth" view after looking at the whole thing!)

3D visualization of NASA meteor shower data. Scientifically accurate and fully interactive.