65+ Meteors Caught on Video! Perseid Meteor Shower 2018

[@KennethBrandon]

How many meteors have you seen?

[@Quetzalcoatl0]

I saw around 40 meteors in 3 hours, but it was super cloudy =/ Also all of them were super fast, i see you have captures some really slow moving ones. :)

[@redkb]

Quetzalcoalt They do look a bit slower on camera than I remember seeing. I think it is because of the wide angle lens making a long fast meteor look short and slow.

[@StellasLive]

I was going out for a walk in saw 3.. it's my first time seeing and it's super cool

[@romansperevertens3939]

i saw like 18 but jot that all cause i needed to sleep

[@romansperevertens3939]

i saw 18 but not all cause i had to sleep but it was so cool .there was one i remember i saw it was realy light

[@render.d]

Since when I was a little kid, I’ve always looked up at the night sky and wondered what lies out there. I’ve always dreamt on seeing the Milky Way and unfortunately I live in a heavily light polluted city. One day my family went out for a drive, far away from the city. The sun had set and night had arrived. There I saw the stars. I couldn’t believe my eyes. The Milky Way, the colours, all dazzling back at me. It was an experience I can never forget. I wished more people could see what I saw. Your video gave me the joyful memories. Keep up the amazing work and happy star gazing.

[@slothboss9482]

Wow that’s pretty awesome :)

[@dissolutezza1142]

Great video, means a lot to me. My dad, who's old and sick now, go to see the Perseids every year. Usually it's super cloudy so we haven't been lucky in recent years. Scared my dad will leave this world before we get to see a clear shower like this one together. But it brings me bittersweet comfort to know that this is going on above those clouds we always find. Thank you.

[@Lubet0TheGreat]

Very touching comment. I really hope that you and your father can see this and better on a clear sky and enjoy all of it.

[@Astro_s1]

Man I hope your dad is okay and I hope u to see the Perseid meteors 1 2 3+ times

[@dissolutezza1142]

@@Astro_s1 He is still around, thank you! Unfortunately I can't be with him this year because he lives in a different city and my city is under lockdown. :(

[@elflordsjourneys]

It's been awhile but worth the wait, nice shots.😀

[@SteveMillerhuntingforfood]

Let's see, I popped a tab of LSD and saw 437 in 27 seconds. I think? Nice job! That's a great sensor for chasing low light too.

[@reverendv8900]

Excellent stuff. The other night I had my a7s2 and 28mm f2 set up at a similarly high ISO, only shooting in 4K so that I could crush the noise with a 1080 export. Clear skies, hit record - clouds emerged and covered the sky until 8am. We then had two days and nights of clear skies again. Been like this in the UK for every cosmic event for 18 months. Same thing happened in August after 100 days of cloudless skies.

[@ShadowSpace56z]

0:45 .. almost seems I was back at Catalina island .. I remember we was camping .. an everything was pitch black .. we clearly saw the entire side of the Milky way galaxy .. an the good part was that night was the perseid meteor shower .. it was like a storm of meteors ..

[@boekster7108]

It was cloudy that night! Glad you got some good shots! Thanks for sharing!

[@ReNailLe]

BEYOND AMAZING, THANK YOU! xoxo

[@fancy3029]

Awesome video. The song is sunspots by jeremy blake

[@Rozette]

It was a glorious night 💙 Perseid meteor shower with music of Erik Satie

[@ketokatt5555]

Best one yet. Thanks!

[@MorePi]

Nice! I love seeing the contrails.

[@thatswimmerguy5459]

More Pi where have you been!?!?!?!?

[@BlueSkiesTruthRadio]

More Pi I'm not exactly sure if they are classified as contrails, any relevant information or link to a source? Thanks!

[@Richard_Nickerson]

Blue Skies Truth Radio You don't think any of those planes left any contrails in all of that time?

[@BlueSkiesTruthRadio]

R Nickerson oh snap good point, I was thinking that he was referring to the trails the meteors were leaving.

[@SteveMillerhuntingforfood]

Sorry, but that's not a condensate trail. It's the debris of the burning meteor. Totally different. One's water, others material of the meteor.

[@Richard_Nickerson]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this. It's been raining pretty much daily where I live, so I never got a good look when I remembered the shower was occurring.

[@laurenemory3276]

So weird look at the Alabama meteor from night before last or rather yesterday morning at 12.20 am. It was huge!!! There are photos on AL.com. It flew right over my house as I was outside looking for the orange moon my friend had called and told me about. 2 seconds later the sky lit up with this bright green meteor that flew right over my house.

[@CaptainTrips]

Amazing footage!

[@bdmcmonk6447]

Wow. you saw more than I did in the midwest. was beautiful and clear this year.

[@lewiscordzyyt6897]

At 1:34 the object going across what is that? It can’t be a meteor, or a shooting star it’s to slow?

[@redbrandonk]

Very cool Seeing the meteors on video was so satisfying! Did you record for hours and watch the tape and collect the timestamps, or did you write timestamps as you were watching the sky live?

[@KennethBrandon]

I stopped the video and started again each time I saw one. Most meteors were at the end of each clip. I missed a couple between clips. I did watch back a couple of the long clips and found I had captrued some that I missed live.

[@ARod016]

What an incredible video! Beautiful shots! What is the name of the song used here?

[@VisualOverland]

Nice work! Very cool to see!

[@kelliesharpe1067]

I can’t remember now if it was the summer or 1985 or 1986 but it was the Perseid Shower that had a storm so amazing that it quite literally looked like it was raining stars. I was a teenagers camping with my parents in Fall Creek Falls..middle Tennessee. There was no internet then and the news didn’t ever talk about meteor showers. I had managed to get away from my parents sight for a little while to walk down to the lake and smoke a cigarette lol. Then the sky started to fall. To be honest it scared the hell out of me because I had no idea what was happening. My father went up to the inn located down the road from the campground to check the 11 o’clock news and ask if anyone knew what was going on and on Wbir in Knoxville had Margie Ison on telling what was happening because so many people were calling news and radio stations about all the stars falling. It was absolutely insane. There was no time between meteors, zero wait time …hundreds were constantly falling. Once he got back and told us what was happening I relaxed and witnessed something I have never and probably will never get to witness again. But since the possibility of it happening again does exist, I watch it each year with a whole lot of hope.

[@ethanharte4175]

Wow! I am surprised you were able to get a shot of the milky way with all the smoke in california right now. Can you just go out and capture the milky way any day? The smoke prevented us from heading out to Mono Lake a few weeks ago. Its really too bad too since this is a great time to camp.

[@KennethBrandon]

There was a lot of smoke in the area, but it most of it was low. You can see it near Mammoth Mountain in the time-lapse (the red light). The location I chose was over 10,000ft. It helped but it was still hazy.

[@ethanharte4175]

Can you see it with your eyes? Or can you only see it with long exposure? I am planning a trip to Mono sometime soon and would love to be able to see it at night.

[@KennethBrandon]

Mono lake has a great dark night sky. If the moon is waining and not up for a few hours after sunset, the milkyway is clearly viewable to the south. To the naked eye it looks much like the footage starting at 0:27.

[@jakfierro3443]

Nice capture!!!

[@tpetersonphotography]

Well done, enjoy your videos

[@ElazarusNicoy]

rewatching this after i witness my very first meteor shower watching of perseid 2020

[@zakjones2020]

Lucky you! I am in Australia and I didn't get to see any meteors unfortunately due to clouds.. Great job though! :)

[@Nottsboy24]

Meteorites hit Earth every day but not like a meteor shower. I see quite a few through out the week every week ☺ clear skies my cool friends 👍

[@sirmarek78]

So beatifull and well made movie ,thank you for sharing now I know what I lost as in London almost always are sky full of clouds.

[@Petertronic]

Amazing!! Have you switched to Sony now or still have the Canons too?

[@KennethBrandon]

I use both! When I got the Sony, I saved my Canon, now I can get twice as much time-lapse on a trip.

[@elehcim85]

Hi Kenneth, absolutely amazing footage. Was too cloudy here in Ireland to capture anything. 1 question...at timestamp 1:34, something appears and moves slowly across the screen, much slower than the meteors.....what is that?

[@InfraredSpace]

Its Airplane Did you witnessed upto 4 Airplanes on this video?

[@karlos1008]

It’s a satellite

[@ShadowSpace56z]

If it's blinking?? It's a plane Not blinking?? It's a satellite

[@brido193]

Clouded out this year during the best days. However I was lucky enough to catch three a few days later. On a similar note, last friday while imaging Mars, I witnessed THE brightest meteor i've ever seen in my 30 years of astronomy. I was rather dazzled by it. Of course it was directly 180 degrees from where my mount was pointing. Typical.

[@franciscohamlin7544]

Wow!!! This looks so awesome!!!

[@ea5528]

That’s insane! Does the sky really look like that?

[@linkedwinters]

Yes, if you go to a dark area away from all city lights, it does!

[@Pomzy]

Everytime i look up its just black and a couple starts, why is there like 100000000000stars in this video and it looks like you can see another galaxy and everything?

[@ibrahimabdoel9601]

May be the darkness of the sky in your area due to light pollution. There is this scale called the bortle scale where bortle class 1 is the clearest and darkest sky’s don’t bortle 8 is the opposite. Also looks like they are using a star tracker to keep the Milky Way in view. Hope that helped. 😀

[@Pomzy]

Ice_From_Fridge ah, might be the case! Thank you

[@ibrahimabdoel9601]

@@Pomzy 😁👍

[@ShadowSpace56z]

cuz you're in a area with light pollution go to places like the desert or canyons .. pitch black night .. or islands .. lol Catalina island is perfect for this

[@InfraredSpace]

Wow, Great Capture buddy Keep it up and Doing :) Did anybody see that from @1:37 to @1:45 a Airplane Encountered double Meteors !! If that is Big the Plane has been entirely Devastated Edit: I has Spotted 4 Aircrafts and upto 70 Meteors so the Airspace has been Obscured by Meteors lol , But Why there is no Satellites? is the first starting shows satellites on it? in light polluted region itself i can see almost 20 to 30 satellites per day excluding cloudy nights on dawn and dusk time :), and I Do Have an Request Please Change the Video category to Science and Technology

[@tammiep7946]

Beautiful!

[@Tyxander]

1:41 ..... The ISS going by?

[@Sparkey]

V. nicely done. I appreciate the time and effort put into capturing this. :)

[@kaustubhbandodkar3725]

Woww amazing !! 😍😘😘

[@bongstorybyriya]

Is the comet dangerous to us?

[@azom5577]

What is the bright orange star on the left?

[@wardeviIs]

pretty sure that's Sirius A

[@abcd1539]

What is that brightest thing? Is it a star or?

[@abcd1539]

1:45 what is the moving thing? I am sorry for calling it a thing, i just don't know anything about space but I saw identical thing today

[@deviladvoc]

1:43 is that the iss?

[@kalford4909]

derek khor I was wondering what that was as well!

[@DustinJones511]

It is an airplane. You can make out the strobe lights.

[@deviladvoc]

@@DustinJones511 well there is a possibility but i dont think airplanes shine so brightly? and dont they switch off the lights during flight to conserve power? it seems a little too bright to be an airplane XD

[@DustinJones511]

@@deviladvoc The strobes are the second brightest lights on an aircraft. Even from a distance the strobes on a small aircraft will leave spots in you eyes. And they are required to stay on throughout the flight.

[@MeierUTube]

Very nice! What kind of lens do you use for shots like this?

[@KennethBrandon]

The time-lapse was a 14mm, and the video was a 24mm. Both were with full frame cameras.

[@rollerqueen7588]

AMAZING! how did you shoot this? Did you manually focus on a star in the galaxy and have your camera follow it? I'm learning the bedrock of astrophotography and editing and I'm always anxious to learn! Great shot:)

[@ibrahimabdoel9601]

Looks like they are using a star tracker to track the night sky as earth rotates, therefore keeping the object in view.

[@celticfire64]

Red Rock Canyon Nevada another stellar location.

[@CodeLeeCarter]

Awesome, Thanks for sharing a view of my homeworld Sun, Subbed, for more Astro Imaging goodies.

[@Nottsboy24]

Super cool ☺

[@heybudi]

Plane on high altitude could be annoying too

[@PCrailfan3790]

Why are the tails green

[@InfiniteUniverse88]

I didn't know meteor showers could be green.

[@jamespeters2859]

How many were wishes.

[@linfeng5656]

so beautiful

[@kevinpruett6424]

There's a UFO bad buggy at 1:37 starts moving center of screen!!

[@kevinpruett6424]

@Johia Mapping almost every time I watch stars I see something odd I don't expect loool

[@MLADYLU]

Did you go to VCHS?

[@KennethBrandon]

Yes 20 years ago I was starting my Junior year there.

[@houseofhermanns]

Whoever gets to see the milkyway is soooo lucky. I live in singapore and theres lights everywhere :,)

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

I see the Milkyway almost every night, but I live in the middle of nowhere far from any towns or city's. It's beautiful !!

[@ShadowSpace56z]

I only saw the Milky way .. when I was in Catalina island

[@kristimcelroy9549]

Look up " fireball over Alabama" it was crazy

[@autumninabq3081]

Magnificent! 🌠⭐👍

[@faroshscale]

Omg I saw a few green ones!

[@Thechqmp]

do more videos

[@Expired1337]

I wonder what ancient civilizations who saw this thought. Gods? Other civilizations? Crazy when your not educated and let your imagination run wild.

[@fersup2]

no music please

[@ACEOFSPACE2000]

AWESOME

[@joeelvis]

Have you seen the face of an angel

[@astroyed992]

i never see sky like this....so little pollution

[@budbloomingfield]

I lost track of time

[@mtlicq]

Siriusly, Turn Off The Music on this video!

[@SteveMillerhuntingforfood]

go ahead, turn off the sound, on your computer.

[@mtlicq]

@@SteveMillerhuntingforfood Done. Thank you for your permission sir.

[@faithdefender4991]

waohhh starset

[@annalisa14]

Ugh. That music.

[@faithdefender4991]

subs you sir