{"id":11773,"date":"2020-10-08T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/08\/2013-perseids-meteor-shower-fireball-and-persistent-train\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T04:00:21","slug":"2013-perseids-meteor-shower-fireball-and-persistent-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/08\/2013-perseids-meteor-shower-fireball-and-persistent-train\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Perseids Meteor Shower:  Fireball and Persistent Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/72228503?color=00adef\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>I got really lucky and captured what I believe to be a meteor explosion with a resulting, expanding shock wave or debris ring.  <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: After being fortunate to have Universe Today cross post my vid, I learned more about the phenomena recorded here.  While this does show a meteor breaking apart, the resulting, expanding ring is called a &#8220;persistent train&#8221; and is NOT a debris ring.  Rather, it is glowing gas &#8211; charged gas that has been heated by compression caused by the meteor and giving off electrons (similar to how a neon sign works).  It happens fairly often but it isn&#8217;t so regularly documented.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/104149\/incredible-footage-shows-a-perseid-meteor-exploding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/104149\/incredible-footage-shows-a-perseid-meteor-exploding\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because I shoot at much higher resolution than 720p, I was able to provide (2) sequences in this video:  (1) is with the full frame of each capture scaled\/reduced and then cropped down to 1280&#215;720, and (2) the other is with the full frame kept at resolution with just the region around the explosion cropped to 1280&#215;720.  I included each sequence twice &#8211; once at 24fps and the other at around 12fps.<\/p>\n<p>Stats for this timelapse sequence:<br \/>\nCamera:  Canon 7D<br \/>\nLens:  Tokina 11mm-16mm\/2.8<br \/>\nExposure: 20sec<br \/>\nIso: 800<br \/>\nAperture: 2.8<br \/>\nFocal Length: 11mm<br \/>\nInterval: 22sec<br \/>\nVideo Frame Rate: 24fps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got really lucky and captured what I believe to be a meteor explosion with a resulting, expanding shock wave or debris ring. UPDATE: After being fortunate to have Universe Today cross post my vid, I learned more about the phenomena recorded here. 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