Astrophotographer and Perseid meteor shower

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Astrophotographer observing the 2021 Perseid meteor shower on August 12, 2021 at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. The radiant of the shower, in Perseus, is at lower left in the northeast. The Milky Way stretches from northeast to southwest (top right). A dim red aurora is on the horizon to the northeast. Cygnus is overhead at centre. Jupiter is the bright object above the astrophotographer. The Big Dipper is at upper left, low in the northwest.

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Photo credit: © Alan Dyer, VWPics/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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