08/18/2023
The Perseid Meteor Shower and the Milky Way captured at The Wave in Arizona. I got incredibly lucky in winning a permit for Sunday night/Monday morning and I had hoped the Perseids were still visible. We hiked in at midnight in the dark via headlamp and GPS only, and when we finally found our destination it was even better than I ever could have imagined. This is a stack of all of the meteors I captured over a one-hour timeframe, with a longer exposure for the foreground blended in. There were even more meteors that I did not capture falling all around us, there had to have been 60-100 per hour on this magical night. We stayed through sunrise and had the whole place to ourselves, easily one of the best experiences of my life.
