Photographer Josh Dury took a spectacular photo of the Perseid meteor shower over Stonehenge. To create this masterpiece, it took him an entire day to edit 46 separate photos taken on the evening of August 9.
Dury shared that shooting the meteor shower over Stonehenge had been a longtime dream of his. Within three hours, he took 43 separate photographs of meteors, which he then combined into a single composition to give the impression of a dense shower.
Stonehenge, located in Wiltshire, England, is a prehistoric astronomical monument known for its solstice orientation. The monument has special importance to Dury, who has been involved with English Heritage for many years.
Dury called his photo “Perseids over Stonehenge” a tribute to the monument, which he considers a world-famous astronomical memorial. No wonder this photo gained publicity when NASA selected it as Astronomy Picture of the Day. The photographer said he was honored to be recognized by NASA. After the publication, his phone received messages nonstop for 48 hours.
NASA noted that the curves of the meteor stripes in the image are due to the use of a 15mm fisheye lens. All meteors in the photo can be traced to a radiant in the constellation Perseus.
The photo was taken from a permitted path near Stonehenge, and it also shows the center band of the Milky Way. Dury used a Sony a7S II camera with a Sigma 15mm DG GN lens and a Benro Tortoise tripod.
Dury’s other work can be seen on his website, Instagram, Facebook and X.
We previously reported on how to observe the Perseids under wartime conditions.
According to PetaPixel
