Here comes the mathematically stacked composite of this year’s Perseids (2024). This time, I wanted to express more, I went deep into my heart and wanted to show the feeling of a man with a kid’s soul, enjoying the place he loves the most. In the bottom part, you can find this person (me), enjoying the beautiful sky over Seč Lake the same way he was doing that as a child–boating under the starry sky. True dream night shows much more than that, as the good weather allowed to capture 144 Perseid meteors from the exact spot by the lake between 6 and 14 August, the colorful Aurora Borealis with prominent SAR on 12 and 13 August 2024, and two bright planets (Mars and Jupiter, upper left corner) in conjunction, captured in the foreground image. For obvious reasons, not all meteors are reflected in the water as they appeared at different times from the period when the foreground image was taken. Anyway, I feel now there is no nicer love letter to my homeplace than this image. Hope you will like it too.
Dream Summer Night
I would like to thank to: Mária Kancírová, Petran and Martin Nešický, Michal Zábský, and Michal Jelínek from Seč.
Used Canon 6D and Saymang 12mm, f2.8, ISO 5000, 30s exposures (meteors); Canon 6D and Saymang 14mm, f2.8, ISO 6400, 30s exposures (meteors); Canon Ra, Sigma 35 mm, f1.8, ISO 5000, 102x10s panorama (foreground); meteors were captured from 7 to 14 August, foreground on 10 August (bottom part with lake plus sky) and 13 August (additionally sky with aurora); Canon 6D modified, Sigma 28 mm, f1.8, vary exposures, ISO 4000, Astronomik H-alpha (h-alpha regions). Separately, details of central Milky Way was taken on Canon Ra and Sigma 50mm (f2.8, ISO 6400, 70x30s stacked for a panel of 8 segments of panorama, used Optolong Clear Sky filter) was used, tracked on Vixen Polarie U, and registered with the final foreground image.
